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Heidi Godman

Managing Director

Heidi Godman directs all news gathering for Harvard Health Publishing, and also directs the curation and production of HHP's four monthly subscription publications (the Harvard Health Letter, Harvard Heart Letter, Harvard Men's Health Watch, and Harvard Women's Health Watch). Previously, Heidi served as the executive editor of the Harvard Health Letter. She was also an award-winning television news anchor and medical reporter.

Posts by Heidi Godman

Typing and tapping despite hand pain featured image

Pain

Typing and tapping despite hand pain

Smart questions to ask about a new prescription featured image

Staying Healthy

Smart questions to ask about a new prescription

Taking an aging parent to the doctor? 10 helpful tips featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Taking an aging parent to the doctor? 10 helpful tips

The most common exercise among people with arthritis featured image

Exercise & Fitness

The most common exercise among people with arthritis

Drinking both coffee and tea linked to lower risks for stroke and dementia featured image

Mind & Mood

Drinking both coffee and tea linked to lower risks for stroke and dementia

Two common shoulder injuries and how to avoid them featured image

Staying Healthy

Two common shoulder injuries and how to avoid them

Shield your brain from decline featured image

Mind & Mood

Shield your brain from decline

Difficulty seeing at night? Try these tips to cope featured image

Staying Healthy

Difficulty seeing at night? Try these tips to cope

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Nutrition

Fighting inflammation with food

Should you monitor this chronic inflammation marker? featured image

Staying Healthy

Should you monitor this chronic inflammation marker?

A new way to detect dangerous blood clots featured image

Heart Health

A new way to detect dangerous blood clots

Five hours of weekly exercise linked to fewer cancer cases featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Five hours of weekly exercise linked to fewer cancer cases

Seeing red? 4 steps to try before responding featured image

Mind & Mood

Seeing red? 4 steps to try before responding

Salt substitute associated with lower rates of stroke, death featured image

Heart Health

Salt substitute associated with lower rates of stroke, death

Progress toward over-the-counter hearing aids featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Progress toward over-the-counter hearing aids

Tooth loss associated with cognitive impairment, dementia featured image

Mind & Mood

Tooth loss associated with cognitive impairment, dementia

Tips to help you stay on your cholesterol drug featured image

article

Tips to help you stay on your cholesterol drug

The dos and don'ts of managing diverticular disease featured image

Diseases & Conditions

The dos and don'ts of managing diverticular disease

Essential nutrients your body needs for building bone featured image

Staying Healthy

Essential nutrients your body needs for building bone

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Staying Healthy

Watch out for these balance busters

The heel problem that threatens your mobility featured image

Diseases & Conditions

The heel problem that threatens your mobility

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Staying Healthy

Gift giving for family or friends in assisted living

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Diseases & Conditions

Sore throat soothers

How much sleep keeps cognitive decline at bay? featured image

Mind & Mood

How much sleep keeps cognitive decline at bay?

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