‘I can smell Parkinson’s’: The woman whose nose is behind an astonishing medical breakthrough

March 21, 2025

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(The Telegraph) – Born with a hyper-sensitive sense of smell, Joy Milne has teamed up with Professor Barran to work on diagnosing early cases of the disease

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’s, when she had noticed a distinctive change to the odour of her husband, Les, more than a decade before his diagnosis… (Read More)