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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

Meeting your exercise goals online featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Meeting your exercise goals online

Can self-employment promote better cardiovascular health for women? featured image

Women's Health

Can self-employment promote better cardiovascular health for women?

When can women with early-stage breast cancer skip radiation after lumpectomy? featured image

Cancer

When can women with early-stage breast cancer skip radiation after lumpectomy?

A care quarterback for older adults featured image

Staying Healthy

A care quarterback for older adults

Women who undergo earlier screening less likely to develop colorectal cancer featured image

Women's Health

Women who undergo earlier screening less likely to develop colorectal cancer

Drinking coffee might lengthen life featured image

Staying Healthy

Drinking coffee might lengthen life

Severe COVID infection may lead to noticeable cognitive loss featured image

Mind & Mood

Severe COVID infection may lead to noticeable cognitive loss

A healthy, tasty swap featured image

Staying Healthy

A healthy, tasty swap

Beyond hot flashes featured image

Women's Health

Beyond hot flashes

What to do when a diagnosis is elusive featured image

Diseases & Conditions

What to do when a diagnosis is elusive

Not-so-sweet slumber featured image

Staying Healthy

Not-so-sweet slumber

Long COVID symptoms differ between the sexes featured image

Women's Health

Long COVID symptoms differ between the sexes

Pregnancy's lasting toll featured image

Women's Health

Pregnancy's lasting toll

Women more likely than men to show atypical stroke symptoms featured image

Women's Health

Women more likely than men to show atypical stroke symptoms

Mediterranean diet may help ward off a dangerous pregnancy complication featured image

Women's Health

Mediterranean diet may help ward off a dangerous pregnancy complication

Tapering off antidepressants sensibly featured image

Mind & Mood

Tapering off antidepressants sensibly

When walking is the best medicine featured image

Diseases & Conditions

When walking is the best medicine

Waist trainers: What happens when you uncinch? featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Waist trainers: What happens when you uncinch?

How do I calm my shaking hands? featured image

Diseases & Conditions

How do I calm my shaking hands?

Novel telehealth approach may improve overactive bladder symptoms featured image

Women's Health

Novel telehealth approach may improve overactive bladder symptoms

Diabetes risk increases after COVID-19 diagnosis featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Diabetes risk increases after COVID-19 diagnosis

Stroke risk rises in people who develop depression after a heart attack featured image

Heart Health

Stroke risk rises in people who develop depression after a heart attack

What type of breast screening do you need? featured image

Women's Health

What type of breast screening do you need?

The annual physical reimagined featured image

Staying Healthy

The annual physical reimagined

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