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

A Scottish woman named Joy Milne made headlines in 2015 for an unusual talent: her ability to sniff out people with Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative illness that is estimated ...

Joy Milne, 72, was able to sniff out Parkinson’s in her husband 12 years before he was diagnosed, because the way he smelled changed. She has been a major asset to scientists, as a ‘super ...

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 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 ...

Nurse Joy Milne first realized her husband had the condition when she noticed a distinct new musty odor from her partner, 12 years before he was diagnosed. Now she is working with researchers from ...

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 ...

Joy Milne, a Scottish nurse, met her husband Les in high school. Nearly 15 years after they met, Joy smelled something different about Les. The scent wouldn't go away, and a decade later ...

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 ...

Former nurse Joy Milne can smell Parkinson's disease.

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 ...

That’s an everyday reality for Joy Milne, a Scottish woman who claims she can sniff out the condition’s telltale scent long before the symptoms appear. The 75-year-old former nurse told The ...