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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

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

Healthy aging and longevity

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

Shingles vaccine may protect against dementia featured image

Mind & Mood

Shingles vaccine may protect against dementia

Kidney stones: From agony to action featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Kidney stones: From agony to action

The dangerous dismissal of women's pain featured image

Pain

The dangerous dismissal of women's pain

A hair-pulling disorder featured image

Diseases & Conditions

A hair-pulling disorder

Exercise can reduce fall risk among older women taking multiple medications featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Exercise can reduce fall risk among older women taking multiple medications

Chronic stress may raise women's stroke risk featured image

Heart Health

Chronic stress may raise women's stroke risk

Keeping coffee to mornings may better protect the heart featured image

Heart Health

Keeping coffee to mornings may better protect the heart

Midlife pressure surge featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Midlife pressure surge

Calcium may cut odds of colorectal cancer, while alcohol may boost them featured image

Cancer

Calcium may cut odds of colorectal cancer, while alcohol may boost them

Heat wave hazards featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Heat wave hazards

Depression tied to risky driving in older adults featured image

Mind & Mood

Depression tied to risky driving in older adults

Common gynecological disorders linked to higher risks for heart and brain featured image

Women's Health

Common gynecological disorders linked to higher risks for heart and brain

Cushing's: A master of disguise featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Cushing's: A master of disguise

Unlocking the secrets of super-agers featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Unlocking the secrets of super-agers

Twist, turn, tone featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Twist, turn, tone

Not just another headache featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Not just another headache

Processed red meat linked to higher risk of dementia featured image

Mind & Mood

Processed red meat linked to higher risk of dementia

Hit hard by POTS featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Hit hard by POTS

Outsmarting perimenopause featured image

Women's Health

Outsmarting perimenopause

Getting the right diagnosis featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Getting the right diagnosis

Diabetes drugs may improve risks for some conditions, but worsen others featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Diabetes drugs may improve risks for some conditions, but worsen others

Sedentary work may contribute to insomnia featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Sedentary work may contribute to insomnia

The healing power of kindness featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

The healing power of kindness

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