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This Woman Detected Her Husband’s Illness More Than a Decade Before Doctors Did—How It Could Change Medicine

Most people would never imagine that a human nose could help reshape the future of medicine. But one woman’s extraordinary sense of smell may eventually...

Saving Advice · May 19

Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson’s Reveals the Distinct Scent She Noticed on Her Husband

A Scottish woman with a remarkable ability to smell Parkinson’s disease has shared how she noticed a change in her husband’s scent.

The Fashion Central · Mar 11, 2025

The Wildest Apocalypse Movie on Netflix Gets One Thing Right About Disease

"World War Z" zombies can sense when someone is ill and won't attack them. But in real life, some diseases do have a smell that dogs and humans can detect.

Inverse · Apr 8, 2023

Woman who can 'smell Parkinson's disease' helps scientific breakthrough

Joy Milne says she can smell people who have the disease while in supermarkets and walking down the street

Manchester Evening News · Sep 7, 2022

Scots woman who sniffed out Parkinson's disease on her husband helps develop new test for the condition

Joy Milne, 72, from Perth noticed a change in her husband's scent when he was 33 - and twelve years later, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Daily Record · Sep 7, 2022

The astonishing story of Scots gran who could 'smell' husband's Parkinson's for 12 years

Joy Milne, from Perth, detected a change in body odour on her late husband Les - who was diagnosed with Parkinson's 12 years later.

Daily Record · Sep 7, 2022

New Parkinson’s test developed from woman who can ‘smell’ the disease

72-year-old Joy Milne has a stronger sense of smell than the average person

Evening Standard · Sep 7, 2022

Test for Parkinson's is developed - thanks to woman who can smell the disease

It has been years in the making

Wales Online · Sep 7, 2022

Woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease helps scientists develop test

Joy Milne noticed her late husband developed a different odour when he was 33 – some 12 years before he was diagnosed with condition

The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2022

New Parkinson's disease test developed from woman who can 'smell the condition'

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

Daily Mirror · Sep 7, 2022