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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

Strong is the new skinny featured image

Women's Health

Strong is the new skinny

Is there a way to keep cold sores from coming back? featured image

Immune and infectious diseases

Is there a way to keep cold sores from coming back?

Speaking multiple languages may promote healthy aging featured image

Brain health

Speaking multiple languages may promote healthy aging

Why do my lips seem thinner than they used to be? featured image

Women's Health

Why do my lips seem thinner than they used to be?

Risk-based breast screenings as effective as annual mammograms featured image

Women's Health

Risk-based breast screenings as effective as annual mammograms

Reproductive factors may raise women's osteoporosis risk featured image

Women's Health

Reproductive factors may raise women's osteoporosis risk

Is your skin problem actually an autoimmune condition? featured image

Skin and hair health

Is your skin problem actually an autoimmune condition?

Antibiotic-free fixes for recurrent UTIs featured image

Women's Health

Antibiotic-free fixes for recurrent UTIs

Musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause: When menopause makes you ache all over featured image

Women's Health

Musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause: When menopause makes you ache all over

When can older women stop getting mammograms? featured image

Women's Health

When can older women stop getting mammograms?

The 7 types of rest and why we need them all featured image

Preventive care

The 7 types of rest and why we need them all

Tips to cultivate your joyspan featured image

Mental Health

Tips to cultivate your joyspan

Women gain heart protection with far less exercise than men featured image

Women's Health

Women gain heart protection with far less exercise than men

Women face barriers to cardiac rehab despite proven benefits featured image

Women's Health

Women face barriers to cardiac rehab despite proven benefits

Quitting smoking in middle age can reduce dementia risk featured image

Brain health

Quitting smoking in middle age can reduce dementia risk

How

Diseases & Conditions

How "inflammaging" shapes our health

Relief or risk? Using cannabis as we age featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Relief or risk? Using cannabis as we age

For weight loss, minimally processed diets beat ultra-processed versions featured image

Diet and nutrition

For weight loss, minimally processed diets beat ultra-processed versions

Exercise may lower risk of premature death among people with diabetes featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Exercise may lower risk of premature death among people with diabetes

Fast walking may lengthen your life featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Fast walking may lengthen your life

When celiac disease strikes later in life featured image

Diseases & Conditions

When celiac disease strikes later in life

The head-scratching dilemma of itchy nipples and breasts featured image

Women's Health

The head-scratching dilemma of itchy nipples and breasts

Coping with dry eyes featured image

Eye Health

Coping with dry eyes

Should women over 60 take iron supplements? What you need to know featured image

Medications and treatments

Should women over 60 take iron supplements? What you need to know

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