Although there is no cure yet, science is tightening the siege on neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis, and there are increasingly more and better diagnostic tools and new treatments that slow their progression. This Friday, the prestigious journal The Lancet published two investigations on new techniques that allow detecting Alzheimer's, which is the most common form of dementia, long before the first symptoms appear. They are a simple blood test, which has been shown in other studies to be a great tool for early diagnosis and is already used in hospitals, and a new brain scanner that improves the results of the technique currently used in the United States and Europe. The sooner the disease is identified, the sooner strategies can be deployed to delay its course, which is why it is essential to have early diagnosis tools.

42.195 kilometers together. Mother and son, running a marathon. 42.195 kilometers receiving messages from other runners, amazed to see Silvia Roldán and Èric Domingo together. Mom, smiling, talking with other runners. And the quieter son, focused on setting a good time while pushing Silvia's wheelchair. Domingo has been participating in races for almost ten years, pushing his mother's wheelchair. She has been suffering from multiple sclerosis for 25 years, a disease that affects more than 9,000 people in Catalonia.

42.195 kilometers together. Mother and son, running a marathon. 42.195 kilometers receiving messages from other runners, amazed to see Silvia Roldán and Èric Domingo together. Mom, smiling, talking with other runners. And the quieter son, focused on setting a good time while pushing Silvia's wheelchair. Domingo has been participating in races for almost ten years, pushing his mother's wheelchair. She has been suffering from multiple sclerosis for 25 years, a disease that affects more than 9,000 people in Catalonia.

Ivette Nadal (Granollers, 1988) has two major projects in hand: on March 28, at the Barnasants festival, she will premiere a show with songs by Pau Riba and Jaume Sisa, and in May she will publish the autobiographical book Poetic justice. Just as she has done with her six previous albums and four poetry books, Ivette will have to combine her vigorous artistic career with fragile health. Since she was 9 years old, she has lived with an eating disorder that has had her in and out of hospitals, and now she has received another diagnosis: multiple sclerosis.