Wednesday, 7 September 2022

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

Woman who can smell Parkinson’s disease helps scientists develop test A woman who can “smell Parkinson’s” has helped scientists develop a test to detect the disease.

The test has been years in the making after academics realised Joy Milne, from Perth, Scotland, who has a heightened sense of smell, could detect the condition.

The 72-year-old noticed her late husband Les developed a different odour when he was 33 – some 12 years before he was diagnosed with the disease, which leads to parts of the brain become progressively damaged over many years. The Independent

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