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Maureen Salamon

Executive Editor, Harvard Women's Health Watch

Maureen Salamon is executive editor of Harvard Women’s Health Watch. She began her career as a newspaper reporter and later covered health and medicine for a wide variety of websites, magazines, and hospitals. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN.com, WebMD, Medscape and HealthDay, among other major outlets. Maureen earned a BA in print journalism from Penn State University.

Posts by Maureen Salamon

When pills pose problems featured image

Staying Healthy

When pills pose problems

Bridging the gap: Dementia communication strategies featured image

Mind & Mood

Bridging the gap: Dementia communication strategies

Fitness face-off featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Fitness face-off

How your dentist could save your life featured image

Diseases & Conditions

How your dentist could save your life

Eating more fruit at midlife may help ward off later-life depression featured image

Mind & Mood

Eating more fruit at midlife may help ward off later-life depression

Abdominal fat linked to widespread, chronic pain featured image

Pain

Abdominal fat linked to widespread, chronic pain

CDC updates recommendations for pneumococcal and COVID vaccines featured image

Diseases & Conditions

CDC updates recommendations for pneumococcal and COVID vaccines

Weekend warriors can still reap major health benefits featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Weekend warriors can still reap major health benefits

Yoga and similar exercises can improve incontinence in older women featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Yoga and similar exercises can improve incontinence in older women

When seizures strike featured image

Diseases & Conditions

When seizures strike

MIND diet may slow cognitive decline featured image

Mind & Mood

MIND diet may slow cognitive decline

Pap smears or self-swabs? featured image

Women's Health

Pap smears or self-swabs?

Winter skin woes featured image

Staying Healthy

Winter skin woes

Beyond the milestone: Health goals for your 50s onward featured image

Staying Healthy

Beyond the milestone: Health goals for your 50s onward

Depression around time of pregnancy may raise risk of cardiovascular disease featured image

Women's Health

Depression around time of pregnancy may raise risk of cardiovascular disease

Chips and dip add up to far more snack calories featured image

Staying Healthy

Chips and dip add up to far more snack calories

Double mastectomy offers no survival benefit for women with breast cancer featured image

Women's Health

Double mastectomy offers no survival benefit for women with breast cancer

Beyond the grind: Toxic productivity and how it sabotages your well-being featured image

Mind & Mood

Beyond the grind: Toxic productivity and how it sabotages your well-being

Inflammatory bowel disease's gender bias featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Inflammatory bowel disease's gender bias

Breathtaking asthma control mistakes featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Breathtaking asthma control mistakes

What's the difference between osteoporosis and osteopenia? featured image

Women's Health

What's the difference between osteoporosis and osteopenia?

Do menopause testing kits work? featured image

Women's Health

Do menopause testing kits work?

Lipedema's invisible toll featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Lipedema's invisible toll

Is it time for a knee replacement? featured image

Staying Healthy

Is it time for a knee replacement?

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