A new study has revealed promising progress in developing a non-invasive sampling method to detect early signs of Parkinson's disease—up to seven years before motor symptoms appear—by ...

Dogs trained to detect Parkinson’s disease using scent have shown remarkable accuracy in new research. In a double-blind trial, they identified skin swabs from people with Parkinson’s with up ...

Dogs can be trained to sniff out a telltale scent related to Parkinson’s disease from skin swabs with high degrees of certainty, potentially paving the way for non-invasive, biomarker-based ...

People with Parkinson's disease (PD) have an odor that can be reliably detected from skin swabs by trained dogs, a new study has shown.