Joy Milne, a retired nurse from Scotland, discovered she could detect Parkinson’s disease by smell after noticing a musky ...

A woman who was able to 'smell' her husband's disease 12 years before it developed is helping scientists develop new ways to ...

"Superhuman smell" sounds like a phrase that belongs in a world of superheroes and villains, but it's real. And it might have ...

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 ...

That’s an everyday reality for Joy Milne, a Scottish woman who claims she can sniff out the condition’s telltale scent long before the symptoms appear. The 75-year-old former nurse told The ...

Joy Milne knew something was wrong with her husband long before doctors did. It started with a change in his scent—a musky, waxy odor she couldn’t place. Seventeen years later, when Les was ...

A few years after marrying her husband Les, Joy Milne noticed an unusual whiff coming from his body. The oddly “musty” odor was being emitted by his shoulders and from the back of his neck.