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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

Dogs and cats may slow cognitive decline featured image

Mind & Mood

Dogs and cats may slow cognitive decline

Ultra-processed foods linked to poor health outcomes featured image

Nutrition

Ultra-processed foods linked to poor health outcomes

Flavonoid-rich foods may fuel healthier aging featured image

Staying Healthy

Flavonoid-rich foods may fuel healthier aging

Navigating menopause after cancer featured image

Women's Health

Navigating menopause after cancer

The case for watching your blood sugar featured image

Diseases & Conditions

The case for watching your blood sugar

Spice up your holidays featured image

Nutrition

Spice up your holidays

Is your sleep position helping or hurting you? featured image

Staying Healthy

Is your sleep position helping or hurting you?

Shake the salt habit featured image

Nutrition

Shake the salt habit

What raises your risk for gynecologic cancer? featured image

Women's Health

What raises your risk for gynecologic cancer?

High-quality carbohydrates in midlife may keep women healthier as they age featured image

Nutrition

High-quality carbohydrates in midlife may keep women healthier as they age

For people with high blood pressure, controlling risk factors could mean a longer life featured image

Diseases & Conditions

For people with high blood pressure, controlling risk factors could mean a longer life

Olive oil may reduce breast cancer risk featured image

Women's Health

Olive oil may reduce breast cancer risk

What the sitting-rising test says about your health featured image

Staying Healthy

What the sitting-rising test says about your health

Peace of mind, or panic? featured image

Mind & Mood

Peace of mind, or panic?

Too much sleep may harm cognitive performance featured image

Mind & Mood

Too much sleep may harm cognitive performance

DASH diet tied to lower colorectal cancer risk featured image

Cancer

DASH diet tied to lower colorectal cancer risk

Stroke odds lower for women with higher brain health scores featured image

Mind & Mood

Stroke odds lower for women with higher brain health scores

Decoding your breast cancer risk featured image

Women's Health

Decoding your breast cancer risk

Fresh-faced through the years featured image

Staying Healthy

Fresh-faced through the years

Hidden hurdles to mental health care featured image

Mind & Mood

Hidden hurdles to mental health care

Solo aging: Who can you rely on? featured image

Staying Healthy

Solo aging: Who can you rely on?

Shingles vaccine may protect against dementia featured image

Mind & Mood

Shingles vaccine may protect against dementia

Combined with exercise, time-restricted eating may boost fat loss featured image

Staying Healthy

Combined with exercise, time-restricted eating may boost fat loss

Replacing butter with plant oils may produce health benefits featured image

Staying Healthy

Replacing butter with plant oils may produce health benefits

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