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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

COPD symptoms: How to spot them early featured image

Respiratory health

COPD symptoms: How to spot them early

Routine cancer screenings for older adults: Mammograms, colonoscopies, PSA tests, and more featured image

Cancer

Routine cancer screenings for older adults: Mammograms, colonoscopies, PSA tests, and more

IV therapy for vitamin replenishment: Health boost or expensive placebo? featured image

Diet and nutrition

IV therapy for vitamin replenishment: Health boost or expensive placebo?

How PMOS (once called PCOS) affects women after menopause featured image

Women's Health

How PMOS (once called PCOS) affects women after menopause

Many older adults get health information from self-defined experts online featured image

Preventive care

Many older adults get health information from self-defined experts online

Eating more soy and other legumes might ward off high blood pressure featured image

Diet and nutrition

Eating more soy and other legumes might ward off high blood pressure

Why do I cough more at night or first thing in the morning? featured image

Respiratory health

Why do I cough more at night or first thing in the morning?

Late-start hormone therapy: Safe or risky? featured image

Women's Health

Late-start hormone therapy: Safe or risky?

What factors speed up aging? featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

What factors speed up aging?

From periods to menopause: How estrogen levels throughout life affect women's brain health featured image

Women's Health

From periods to menopause: How estrogen levels throughout life affect women's brain health

Full-body MRI screening: Reassurance or overdiagnosis? featured image

Preventive care

Full-body MRI screening: Reassurance or overdiagnosis?

The problem with

Immune and infectious diseases

The problem with "classic" Lyme disease symptoms

Are those body aches a sign of gallstones? featured image

Digestive Health

Are those body aches a sign of gallstones?

Staying active throughout middle age may lower women's risk of dying early featured image

Women's Health

Staying active throughout middle age may lower women's risk of dying early

High-dose flu shot may lower risk of Alzheimer's featured image

Preventive care

High-dose flu shot may lower risk of Alzheimer's

Healthier plant-based diet tied to lower risk of dementia featured image

Diet and nutrition

Healthier plant-based diet tied to lower risk of dementia

Eating more fish may help prevent macular degeneration featured image

Diet and nutrition

Eating more fish may help prevent macular degeneration

Seven hours of sleep linked to better blood sugar regulation featured image

Sleep

Seven hours of sleep linked to better blood sugar regulation

Spirituality may protect against substance misuse featured image

Mental Health

Spirituality may protect against substance misuse

GLP-1 drugs may lower odds of developing substance use disorders featured image

Medications and treatments

GLP-1 drugs may lower odds of developing substance use disorders

The latest advances in colorectal cancer screening featured image

Cancer

The latest advances in colorectal cancer screening

When consequences of pregnancy complications develop later in life featured image

Women's Health

When consequences of pregnancy complications develop later in life

How chemotherapy can affect women's sexual health - and what can help featured image

Women's Health

How chemotherapy can affect women's sexual health - and what can help

When your brain takes revenge at bedtime featured image

Sleep

When your brain takes revenge at bedtime

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