Recent Articles
Gratitude enhances health, brings happiness — and may even lengthen lives
Skin care for aging skin: Minimizing age spots, wrinkles, and undereye bags
Medicare versus Medicaid: Key differences
Lost a tooth? What to know about dental implants
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: Evidence-based uses and unproven claims
Gatorade. Liquid IV. Do you need extra electrolytes?
Sexual violence can cast a long shadow on health
Prostate cancer: Short-course radiation just as effective as longer-term treatments
Eggs, protein, and cholesterol: How to make eggs part of a heart-healthy diet
Can a quick snooze help with energy and focus? The science behind power naps
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
Mind & Mood
Regular physical activity can boost mood
Mind & Mood
Social challenges such as isolation linked to earlier death
Diseases & Conditions
Healthy habits might ward off long COVID
Women's Health
Women with migraines more likely to have pregnancy complications
Women's Health
The pain gap
Cancer
Silent suffering
Staying Healthy
Good intentions, perilous results
Staying Healthy
Sowing the seeds of better health
Child & Teen Health
Cutting and self-harm: Why it happens and what to do
Child & Teen Health
A muscle-building obsession in boys: What to know and do
Diseases & Conditions
Sleep apnea may lead to weaker bones and teeth
Mind & Mood
Junk food addiction more common in women
Staying Healthy
Emergency care visits after cannabis use rising among older adults
Staying Healthy
The humble gallbladder
Staying Healthy
Preparing for success in the operating room — and beyond
Diseases & Conditions
Toss your reading glasses?
Diseases & Conditions
Invisible illness: More than meets the eye
Women's Health
Preventing ovarian cancer: Should women consider removing fallopian tubes?
Staying Healthy
Vitamin D deficiency linked to loss of muscle strength
Diseases & Conditions
Dementia and frailty increase odds of dying after major surgery
Women's Health
DASH diet even better for women's hearts
Diseases & Conditions
IBS in the crosshairs
Diseases & Conditions
Prediabetes: A window of opportunity
Diseases & Conditions
Battling a "brain storm"
Recent Articles
Gratitude enhances health, brings happiness — and may even lengthen lives
Skin care for aging skin: Minimizing age spots, wrinkles, and undereye bags
Medicare versus Medicaid: Key differences
Lost a tooth? What to know about dental implants
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: Evidence-based uses and unproven claims
Gatorade. Liquid IV. Do you need extra electrolytes?
Sexual violence can cast a long shadow on health
Prostate cancer: Short-course radiation just as effective as longer-term treatments
Eggs, protein, and cholesterol: How to make eggs part of a heart-healthy diet
Can a quick snooze help with energy and focus? The science behind power naps