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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

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

Strength training might lengthen life featured image

Staying Healthy

Strength training might lengthen life

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

Winter hiking: Magical or miserable? featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Winter hiking: Magical or miserable?

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

Nutrition

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

Got a goiter? featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Got a goiter?

Surprising foods that boost bone health featured image

Women's Health

Surprising foods that boost bone health

A lethal cancer's long reach featured image

Women's Health

A lethal cancer's long reach

7 things your dentist wants you to know featured image

Staying Healthy

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

Expectant mothers can rest easier about taking antidepressants featured image

Women's Health

Expectant mothers can rest easier about taking antidepressants

U.S. adults like integrative medicine, but few discuss it with their doctors featured image

Staying Healthy

U.S. adults like integrative medicine, but few discuss it with their doctors

Americans' use of prescription sleep medications drops dramatically featured image

Staying Healthy

Americans' use of prescription sleep medications drops dramatically

Vegetarian diet linked to more hip fractures in women featured image

Women's Health

Vegetarian diet linked to more hip fractures in women

Cancer Network updates recommendations for breast cancer screening in younger women featured image

Women's Health

Cancer Network updates recommendations for breast cancer screening in younger women

When the first step is the hardest featured image

Pain

When the first step is the hardest

Bladder problems that warrant a doctor's visit featured image

Women's Health

Bladder problems that warrant a doctor's visit

Do fermented foods live up to the hype? featured image

Staying Healthy

Do fermented foods live up to the hype?

Eating disorders in midlife featured image

Women's Health

Eating disorders in midlife

Break free from 3 self-sabotaging ANTs — automatic negative thoughts featured image

Mind & Mood

Break free from 3 self-sabotaging ANTs — automatic negative thoughts

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