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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

IBS in the crosshairs featured image

Diseases & Conditions

IBS in the crosshairs

Prediabetes: A window of opportunity featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Prediabetes: A window of opportunity

Battling a

Diseases & Conditions

Battling a "brain storm"

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Women's Health

When sex hurts

National task force updates recommendations on hormone therapy after menopause featured image

Women's Health

National task force updates recommendations on hormone therapy after menopause

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Diseases & Conditions

Shingles linked with higher risk for heart disease and stroke

Exercise can reduce fatigue in breast cancer patients undergoing radiation featured image

Women's Health

Exercise can reduce fatigue in breast cancer patients undergoing radiation

A mask that's hard to shed featured image

Diseases & Conditions

A mask that's hard to shed

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Healthy aging and longevity

Short on slumber

Anxiety overload featured image

Mind & Mood

Anxiety overload

At-home tests: Help or hindrance? featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

At-home tests: Help or hindrance?

Shift work can harm sleep and health: What helps? featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Shift work can harm sleep and health: What helps?

Late-stage cervical cancer on the rise: What to know featured image

Cancer

Late-stage cervical cancer on the rise: What to know

Women lack information on life after breast reconstruction featured image

Women's Health

Women lack information on life after breast reconstruction

Alcohol may lower pregnancy odds in women undergoing fertility treatment — but caffeine is no problem featured image

Women's Health

Alcohol may lower pregnancy odds in women undergoing fertility treatment — but caffeine is no problem

Take arms against perplexing pain featured image

Pain

Take arms against perplexing pain

Managing the unthinkable featured image

Mind & Mood

Managing the unthinkable

A pain in the rear featured image

Diseases & Conditions

A pain in the rear

Pressure shift featured image

Women's Health

Pressure shift

Strength training might lengthen life featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Strength training might lengthen life

Winter hiking: Magical or miserable? featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Winter hiking: Magical or miserable?

Low-carb diet helps cut blood sugar levels in people with prediabetes featured image

Diet and nutrition

Low-carb diet helps cut blood sugar levels in people with prediabetes

7 things your dentist wants you to know featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

7 things your dentist wants you to know

Sleep apnea treatment lowers rehospitalization for heart problems in older adults featured image

Heart Health

Sleep apnea treatment lowers rehospitalization for heart problems in older adults

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