RECAP #1: Joy Milne asked why do people with Parkinson’s have a different body odour. Research scientist Dr Tilo Kunath answered: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but let’s do an experiment. And they found Joy’s ability to Together, Milne, Kunath, and a host of other scientists would use Milne's unusual sense of smell to develop a new diagnostic test, now in development and poised to revolutionize the treatment of Parkinson's Disease. "Joy was in the audience during a talk I was giving on my work, which has to do with Parkinson's In this talk, Joy Milne recounts the story of her incredible life: while working as an NHS nurse in Scotland, she discovered she had a true superpower. She discovered she could smell the There is currently no definitive test for Parkinson's disease - but Joy Milne sniffed it on people's T-shirts. It is hoped she might sniff out other diseases too. Wednesday 7 September , UK A Scottish gran who smelled her husband’s Parkinson’s disease 12 years before he was officially diagnosed has revealed what other illnesses smell like.. Joy Milne appeared on This Morning to September 22, am (Updated March 23, pm) A decade into her marriage, Joy Milne, 72, noticed that her husband Les smelt different. He had begun to smell musky. She brought it
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Scientists were just as curious about Milne's claims as we are, so researchers from the University of Edinburgh contacted her and set up an experiment. Six people diagnosed with Parkinson's were asked to wear T-shirts as well as six people without the disease. Milne was asked to sniff out which T When did Joy Milne realise she was smelling Parkinson’s? Joy only attributed his new smell to Parkinson’s when he was diagnosed with the disease 12 years later. She realised she had been smelling Parkinson’s for more than a decade when she found herself standing in a room with other people who had Britain’s Joy Milne can literally smell the disease, even before the first symptoms appear. Discover our latest podcast Thanks to her infallible nose, she can detect a ‘musky’ odour in people with Parkinson's disease Joy Milne, 72, who lives in Scotland has been dubbed ‘the woman who can smell Parkinson’s’. Undated handout photo of Joy Milne with her late husband Les. Issue date: Wednesday September 7, PA. Soraya Ebrahimi.
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PA Media. Wed 7 Sep EDT. Scientists have harnessed the power of a woman’s hyper-sensitive sense of smell to develop a test to determine whether people have Parkinson’s disease. The Joy Milne, conducting an experiment by sniffing a t-shirt to see if it's owner has Parkinson's disease Credit: Chris Watt for The Telegraph. A British woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease has Milne, who has hereditary hyperosmia, or a heightened sense of smell, has worked with Parkinson’s disease doctors and researchers since her husband’s death in