Joy Milne told 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, Les.

Joy Milne has an extremely rare condition known as hyperosmia, which is an incredibly sensitive sense of smell - a 'superpower' which enabled her to sniff out the disease in her late husband, Les.

The test has been years in the making after academics realised that Joy Milne could smell the condition. New Parkinson’s test developed thanks to woman who could smell the disease ...

Joy Milne has an extraordinary sense of smell. Her hereditary talent, known as hyperosmia, led her to the diagnosis of her husband Les’s disease. On his deathbed, he urged her to continue with ...

Joy Milne, 72, from Perth, in Scotland, has a super-strong sense of smell and after being found to be able to detect Parkinson's, scientists have now developed a test for the disease ...

Joy Milne noticed her late husband developed a different odour when he was 33 – some 12 years before he was diagnosed with condition . Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Joy Milne, a retired Scottish nurse in her 70s with a rare condition giving her heightened smell, came forward in 2016 after noticing a distinct change in the smell of her late husband when he ...

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, a Scotswoman, possesses hyperosmia. This rare condition allows her to detect Parkinson's disease through smell. She noticed a change in her husband's odor before his diagnosis.