That was the slogan at the Towards Universal Chemosensory Testing Conference held in Philadelphia earlier this year. The National Institutes of Health funded conference created a space for researchers ...

New research reveals that immune cells attack brainstem nerve fibers linked to smell, making loss of smell the earliest detectable sign of Alzheimer’s disease, and a potential window for earlier ...

Researchers reveal a link between olfactory loss and inflammation in 139 medical conditions. The researchers say loss of smell is an early sign of numerous neurological and bodily diseases.

Dear Mayo Clinic: I am an 84-year-old man who was hospitalized with pneumonia in January 2005, and since then I've had no sense of smell or taste. The doctors I've visited seem uninterested and don't ...

A new fluorescent imaging probe can for the first time objectively and non-invasively measure loss of smell, clinically known as anosmia. Targeting the olfactory nerve, the new tool has potential to ...

The idea seemed, at first blush, preposterous. "I don't know anyone spraying vitamin D up a patient's nose," said Jennifer Mulligan, Ph.D., co-director of the University of Florida Health Smell ...

Loss of the sense of smell could be a warning sign of future Alzheimer’s disease, as a recent study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, noted. Those who ...

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the loss of smell and taste were often telltale signs that a person had been infected b the coronavirus. The unusual symptom added another layer of misery to the ...

Not having — or losing — your sense of smell may be linked to changes in breathing that could lead to depression, social isolation or other mental and physical health problems, a new study suggests.

Millions of people in the United States and around the world experience some degree of smell loss or dysfunction of their sense of smell. This can have a severe impact on individuals’ well-being, as a ...

And though some of that olfactory impairment is undoubtedly the result of neurological damage, more recent research suggests that smell loss could actually contribute to some conditions. Failing the ...

Tracy Messina knew something was wrong the day she couldn't smell her tea. She asked her husband, Marcus, to make a cup of apple cinnamon, but when he brought it over, she couldn't pick up any of the ...