3 Minute Test to Diagnose Parkinson’s Disease
Joy Milne is known the world over as the woman who can smell Parkinson’s. PD Avengers President Larry Gifford talked with her and Professor Perdita Barron, the Director of the Michael Barber Centre for Collaborative Mass Spectrometry at The University of Manchester, who’ve been working side by side hand to nose for years identifying what exactly it is that Joy smells and if it can be used as a way to diagnose Parkinson’s. A paper released today, just after midnight September 7, 2022 (British Summer Time) The charities Parkinson’s UK and the Michael J. Fox Foundation as well as the Royal Society funded this research led by the University of Manchester, which has studied the sebum from people with and without Parkinson’s. Our work is on-going, and our trial has now recruited over 2000 patients.
