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Maureen Salamon

Executive Editor, Harvard Women's Health Watch

Maureen Salamon is the executive editor of Harvard Women’s Health Watch. She also writes for the Harvard Health Letter, Harvard Heart Letter, and Harvard Men’s Health Watch, as well as for Harvard Health Publishing’s flagship website. 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 fatigue leaves you drained, depleted, and dumbfounded featured image

Diseases & Conditions

When fatigue leaves you drained, depleted, and dumbfounded

Validation: Defusing intense emotions featured image

Mind & Mood

Validation: Defusing intense emotions

Bonds that transcend age featured image

Mind & Mood

Bonds that transcend age

Feeding body and soul featured image

Diet and nutrition

Feeding body and soul

Staying safe while getting well featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Staying safe while getting well

Screening advice that's not just skin deep featured image

Cancer

Screening advice that's not just skin deep

Sleep problems may raise the risk of stroke featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Sleep problems may raise the risk of stroke

Women more likely to be injured while walking a leashed dog featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Women more likely to be injured while walking a leashed dog

National task force proposes updated breast cancer screening recommendations featured image

Women's Health

National task force proposes updated breast cancer screening recommendations

What is somatic therapy? featured image

Mind & Mood

What is somatic therapy?

Older women disproportionately diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer featured image

Cancer

Older women disproportionately diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer

Some obesity-related brain changes similar to those with Alzheimer's featured image

Mind & Mood

Some obesity-related brain changes similar to those with Alzheimer's

Taming traveler's tummy featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Taming traveler's tummy

Menopause marketing: Hype vs. truth featured image

Women's Health

Menopause marketing: Hype vs. truth

Power up your walking routine featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Power up your walking routine

Opioid use disorder in older adults: More common than you might think featured image

Women's Health

Opioid use disorder in older adults: More common than you might think

Regular physical activity can boost mood featured image

Mind & Mood

Regular physical activity can boost mood

Social challenges such as isolation linked to earlier death featured image

Mind & Mood

Social challenges such as isolation linked to earlier death

Healthy habits might ward off long COVID featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Healthy habits might ward off long COVID

Women with migraines more likely to have pregnancy complications featured image

Women's Health

Women with migraines more likely to have pregnancy complications

The pain gap featured image

Women's Health

The pain gap

Silent suffering featured image

Cancer

Silent suffering

Good intentions, perilous results featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Good intentions, perilous results

Sowing the seeds of better health featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Sowing the seeds of better health

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