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Smelling Parkinson's Disease

Your sense of smell can be a powerful thing, but imagine if you could smell a developing disease? Joy Milne, noticed her husband’s scent changed when he was 33. It turned out, she was smelling his Parkinson’s more than a decade before his diagnosis....

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14.00 8 Sep 2022


Smelling Parkinson's Disease


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14.00 8 Sep 2022


Your sense of smell can be a powerful thing, but imagine if you could smell a developing disease? Joy Milne, noticed her husband’s scent changed when he was 33. It turned out, she was smelling his Parkinson’s more than a decade before his diagnosis.

She has been working with researchers ever since, and now they’ve developed a skin test that would identify the disease before symptoms begin. Joy joined Sean on the show today...


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