In 1975, Oswald and 13-year-old Edgar Anders sailed 200 miles across Lakes Michigan and Huron—an unforgettable father-son ...

A former British nurse began noticing that her husband smelled different, and she assumed it was tied to Les Milne’s career ...

Dogs are known to have incredible senses of smell, far more powerful than our own. Previous studies have found our pets can ...

The scientists claim that those with Parkinson’s exhibit a smell of oily secretions which could be the key to detecting the ...

Joy and Les Milne were childhood sweethearts who started dating at just 16. When they reached their mid-30s, Mrs Milne - then a nurse - noticed a change in her husband's odour.

They said the discovery could be a game-changer for managing the condition. “Super smeller” Joy Milne, who detected her husband’s Parkinson’s disease 12 years before it was diagnosed, inspired the ...

Researchers at the University of Manchester found that volatile compounds in skin sebum may reveal Parkinson’s disease years before symptoms begin. Using skin swabs and chemical analysis, they ...

But one survey found that over a quarter of people with Parkinson’s were diagnosed with the wrong condition first, which is a ...

Joy Milne—the "super smeller" who inspired the research —was also able to distinguish swabs from people with iRBD from the control group and Parkinson's patients.

Parkinson’s disease has a scent, and trained dogs can smell it with surprising accuracy, years ahead of diagnosis.

Dogs trained to detect Parkinson’s disease from skin swabs achieve up to 80% sensitivity and 98% specificity, suggesting a ...

Both studies were inspired by co-author and "super-smeller" Joy Milne, a nurse with hyperosmia who noticed that people with different diseases had different smells -- including her husband, who ...