Parkinson's: Woman who can sniff out disease inspires new research

Question 1

            a) false. Joy Milne, successfully identified sufferers by smelling T-shirts they had slept in.

            b) true. if it's proved there is a unique odour associated with Parkinson's, particularly early on in the condition, it could have a huge impact not just on early diagnosis

            c) true. even stop Parkinson's, something no current drug can achieve

            d) false.Professor Perdita Barran of the University of Manchester will lead a team trying to identify differences in chemicals present on the skin surface of people with Parkinson's

Question 2

            a)  Over time, sufferers tremble, are less flexible and take longer to move around         

            b )  Using her sense of smell to analyse T-shirts worn in bed, she could pick up differences in body odour both in people who had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s and those who had not yet shown signs of the disease.

Question 3

a)    tremor

b)    to launch

c)    subtle

            d) keen

            e) to estimate

Question 4

a)    Mrs Milne said she had always had a keen sense of smell and she had detected very early on that there had been a very subtle change in her husband’s smell.

b)    Distinctive smells associated with certain diagnoses had been uncovered (by research)

c)    The "supersmeller" and experts from the food and drink industry analyse the samples.