Joy Milne, a retired nurse from Scotland, discovered she could detect Parkinsons disease by smell after noticing a musky odor ...

A woman who was able to 'smell' her husband's disease 12 years before it developed is helping scientists develop new ways to ...

Joy Milne inherited a condition known as ‘hyperosmia’ from her grandmother and has put her incredible sense of smell to good use - Saesha Blue Ward ...

Joy Milne’s life has changed immeasurably since the day she ambushed an eminent stem-cell biologist at a talk in Edinburgh, dumbfounding him by asking why smell wasn’t used to detect Parkinson ...

Joy Milne’s unique talent emerged when her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Credit: Chris Watt/New Scientist. Joy Milne knew something was wrong with her husband long before doctors did.

It’s not a new invention, Joy Milne herself is quite a bit of a medical marvel! The Scotswoman, who had been with her now-late husband, Les, since she was 16 years old, had been accustomed to ...

Joy Milne is a ‘super smeller’, she has a rare condition called hyperosmia that gives her an extremely sensitive sense of smell. Throughout her life she has experienced the world differently from ...

A decade into her marriage, Joy Milne, 72, noticed that her husband Les smelt different. He had begun to smell musky. She brought it up with him – on more than one occasion imploring him to wash ...

Joy Milne told Sky's The UK Tonight With Sarah-Jane Mee about how her rare condition of hyperosmia, an incredibly sensitive sense of smell, helped her sniff out the disease in her late husband ...

A woman smelling chemical. Credit: The Nose event at the Wellcome Trust / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Joy Milne, a 72-year-old retired nurse from Scotland, has the unique ability to smell ...

Joy Milne first smelled the disease on her late husband, Les, 17 years before he was diagnosed with it Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock Joy Milne can smell Parkinson's disease and is working with ...

Former nurse Joy Milne can smell Parkinson's disease.