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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

Decoding rheumatoid arthritis featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Decoding rheumatoid arthritis

More water may equate to more health benefits featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

More water may equate to more health benefits

CDC updates recommendations for pneumococcal and COVID vaccines featured image

Diseases & Conditions

CDC updates recommendations for pneumococcal and COVID vaccines

Abdominal fat linked to widespread, chronic pain featured image

Pain

Abdominal fat linked to widespread, chronic pain

Eating more fruit at midlife may help ward off later-life depression featured image

Mind & Mood

Eating more fruit at midlife may help ward off later-life depression

How your dentist could save your life featured image

Diseases & Conditions

How your dentist could save your life

Fitness face-off featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Fitness face-off

Bridging the gap: Dementia communication strategies featured image

Mind & Mood

Bridging the gap: Dementia communication strategies

When pills pose problems featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

When pills pose problems

Weekend warriors can still reap major health benefits featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Weekend warriors can still reap major health benefits

Yoga and similar exercises can improve incontinence in older women featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Yoga and similar exercises can improve incontinence in older women

When seizures strike featured image

Diseases & Conditions

When seizures strike

MIND diet may slow cognitive decline featured image

Mind & Mood

MIND diet may slow cognitive decline

Winter skin woes featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Winter skin woes

Beyond the milestone: Health goals for your 50s onward featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Beyond the milestone: Health goals for your 50s onward

Pap smears or self-swabs? featured image

Women's Health

Pap smears or self-swabs?

Double mastectomy offers no survival benefit for women with breast cancer featured image

Women's Health

Double mastectomy offers no survival benefit for women with breast cancer

Depression around time of pregnancy may raise risk of cardiovascular disease featured image

Women's Health

Depression around time of pregnancy may raise risk of cardiovascular disease

Chips and dip add up to far more snack calories featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Chips and dip add up to far more snack calories

Beyond the grind: Toxic productivity and how it sabotages your well-being featured image

Mind & Mood

Beyond the grind: Toxic productivity and how it sabotages your well-being

Inflammatory bowel disease's gender bias featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Inflammatory bowel disease's gender bias

What's the difference between osteoporosis and osteopenia? featured image

Women's Health

What's the difference between osteoporosis and osteopenia?

Breathtaking asthma control mistakes featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Breathtaking asthma control mistakes

Lipedema's invisible toll featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Lipedema's invisible toll

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