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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

Depression around time of pregnancy may raise risk of cardiovascular disease featured image

Women's Health

Depression around time of pregnancy may raise risk of cardiovascular disease

Chips and dip add up to far more snack calories featured image

Staying Healthy

Chips and dip add up to far more snack calories

Double mastectomy offers no survival benefit for women with breast cancer featured image

Women's Health

Double mastectomy offers no survival benefit for women with breast cancer

Beyond the grind: Toxic productivity and how it sabotages your well-being featured image

Mind & Mood

Beyond the grind: Toxic productivity and how it sabotages your well-being

Inflammatory bowel disease's gender bias featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Inflammatory bowel disease's gender bias

Breathtaking asthma control mistakes featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Breathtaking asthma control mistakes

What's the difference between osteoporosis and osteopenia? featured image

Women's Health

What's the difference between osteoporosis and osteopenia?

Do menopause testing kits work? featured image

Women's Health

Do menopause testing kits work?

Lipedema's invisible toll featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Lipedema's invisible toll

Is it time for a knee replacement? featured image

Staying Healthy

Is it time for a knee replacement?

Nutritional power couples featured image

Nutrition

Nutritional power couples

Using a salt substitute can lower risk of developing high blood pressure featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Using a salt substitute can lower risk of developing high blood pressure

Short bursts of evening activity fuel better sleep featured image

Staying Healthy

Short bursts of evening activity fuel better sleep

Counting steps or exercise minutes both work to promote health featured image

Staying Healthy

Counting steps or exercise minutes both work to promote health

Can't shake that cough? featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Can't shake that cough?

Beyond bereavement featured image

Mind & Mood

Beyond bereavement

Want a calmer brain? Try this featured image

Mind & Mood

Want a calmer brain? Try this

Color-changing eye drops: Are they safe? featured image

Staying Healthy

Color-changing eye drops: Are they safe?

Chronic loneliness may raise stroke risk featured image

Mind & Mood

Chronic loneliness may raise stroke risk

Regular walking can hamper low back pain recurrence featured image

Pain

Regular walking can hamper low back pain recurrence

Restless legs syndrome on the radar featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Restless legs syndrome on the radar

Gratitude may help you live longer featured image

Mind & Mood

Gratitude may help you live longer

Depression's cognitive cost featured image

Mind & Mood

Depression's cognitive cost

Medication perils featured image

Staying Healthy

Medication perils

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