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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

Not-so-sweet slumber featured image

Staying Healthy

Not-so-sweet slumber

Long COVID symptoms differ between the sexes featured image

Women's Health

Long COVID symptoms differ between the sexes

Pregnancy's lasting toll featured image

Women's Health

Pregnancy's lasting toll

Women more likely than men to show atypical stroke symptoms featured image

Women's Health

Women more likely than men to show atypical stroke symptoms

Mediterranean diet may help ward off a dangerous pregnancy complication featured image

Women's Health

Mediterranean diet may help ward off a dangerous pregnancy complication

Tapering off antidepressants sensibly featured image

Mind & Mood

Tapering off antidepressants sensibly

When walking is the best medicine featured image

Diseases & Conditions

When walking is the best medicine

Waist trainers: What happens when you uncinch? featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Waist trainers: What happens when you uncinch?

How do I calm my shaking hands? featured image

Diseases & Conditions

How do I calm my shaking hands?

Novel telehealth approach may improve overactive bladder symptoms featured image

Women's Health

Novel telehealth approach may improve overactive bladder symptoms

Diabetes risk increases after COVID-19 diagnosis featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Diabetes risk increases after COVID-19 diagnosis

Stroke risk rises in people who develop depression after a heart attack featured image

Heart Health

Stroke risk rises in people who develop depression after a heart attack

What type of breast screening do you need? featured image

Women's Health

What type of breast screening do you need?

The annual physical reimagined featured image

Staying Healthy

The annual physical reimagined

Summertime blues? featured image

Mind & Mood

Summertime blues?

Struggling with migraine hangovers? Read this featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Struggling with migraine hangovers? Read this

The truth about nutrient deficiencies featured image

Nutrition

The truth about nutrient deficiencies

Magic mushrooms and toad venom featured image

Mind & Mood

Magic mushrooms and toad venom

Dementia link to early menopause featured image

Women's Health

Dementia link to early menopause

Social isolation and loneliness add up to higher heart risks featured image

Staying Healthy

Social isolation and loneliness add up to higher heart risks

Another benefit of exercise: Eye comfort featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Another benefit of exercise: Eye comfort

Menopause and brain fog: What's the link? featured image

Women's Health

Menopause and brain fog: What's the link?

Women's heart symptoms not so different after all featured image

Women's Health

Women's heart symptoms not so different after all

French fries versus almonds: Calorie for calorie, which comes out on top? featured image

Nutrition

French fries versus almonds: Calorie for calorie, which comes out on top?

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