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, 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 ...

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’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.

When Joy Milne first noticed a different smell on her husband Les she had no idea it was Parkinson's disease that he would be diagnosed with over a decade later Super-smeller Joy Milne with her ...

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 ...

Joy Milne first realized her remarkable ability when her husband started emitting a foul, musty odor. Now, it has become her superpower. Several years after Les’s diagnosis, the couple became part of ...

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 ...