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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

Erectile dysfunction: Is it a sign of hidden health problems? featured image

Men's Health

Erectile dysfunction: Is it a sign of hidden health problems?

How to save money on medication featured image

Medications and treatments

How to save money on medication

The health risks of gray divorce: Stress, insomnia, high blood pressure, and more featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

The health risks of gray divorce: Stress, insomnia, high blood pressure, and more

How menopause can affect oral health, including tooth decay, dry mouth, and shifting teeth featured image

Women's Health

How menopause can affect oral health, including tooth decay, dry mouth, and shifting teeth

The 5 pillars of longevity: Movement, nutrition, sleep, stress reduction, and social connection featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

The 5 pillars of longevity: Movement, nutrition, sleep, stress reduction, and social connection

C-reactive protein: Should healthy people be tested for it? featured image

Preventive care

C-reactive protein: Should healthy people be tested for it?

Loneliness linked to cognitive decline and early death featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Loneliness linked to cognitive decline and early death

Strength training over decades linked to longer life featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Strength training over decades linked to longer life

Digital overload: Coping with the stress of screen time and other digital demands as we get older featured image

Brain health

Digital overload: Coping with the stress of screen time and other digital demands as we get older

COPD symptoms: How to spot them early featured image

Respiratory health

COPD symptoms: How to spot them early

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

Women's Health

How PMOS (once called PCOS) affects women after menopause

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

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

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?

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

Medication side effects that can mimic

Medications and treatments

Medication side effects that can mimic "getting older"

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?

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

Preventive care

Full-body MRI screening: Reassurance or overdiagnosis?

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

The problem with

Immune and infectious diseases

The problem with "classic" Lyme disease symptoms

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

Preventive care

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

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

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

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