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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

Counting steps or exercise minutes both work to promote health featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Counting steps or exercise minutes both work to promote health

Short bursts of evening activity fuel better sleep featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Short bursts of evening activity fuel better sleep

Using a salt substitute can lower risk of developing high blood pressure featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Using a salt substitute can lower risk of developing high blood pressure

Want a calmer brain? Try this featured image

Mind & Mood

Want a calmer brain? Try this

Color-changing eye drops: Are they safe? featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Color-changing eye drops: Are they safe?

Overdue for a check-up? featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Overdue for a check-up?

Medication perils featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Medication perils

Depression's cognitive cost featured image

Mind & Mood

Depression's cognitive cost

Gratitude may help you live longer featured image

Mind & Mood

Gratitude may help you live longer

Restless legs syndrome on the radar featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Restless legs syndrome on the radar

Regular walking can hamper low back pain recurrence featured image

Pain

Regular walking can hamper low back pain recurrence

Chronic loneliness may raise stroke risk featured image

Mind & Mood

Chronic loneliness may raise stroke risk

Gratitude enhances health, brings happiness - and may even lengthen lives featured image

Mind & Mood

Gratitude enhances health, brings happiness - and may even lengthen lives

Subtle cognitive decline foreshadows older adults' end of driving featured image

Mind & Mood

Subtle cognitive decline foreshadows older adults' end of driving

Doomscrolling dangers featured image

Mind & Mood

Doomscrolling dangers

Mediterranean diet may help you live longer featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Mediterranean diet may help you live longer

Tattoos may raise lymphoma risks featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Tattoos may raise lymphoma risks

Menopause supplements: Effective relief or empty promises? featured image

Women's Health

Menopause supplements: Effective relief or empty promises?

Physical therapy: Myths vs. reality featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Physical therapy: Myths vs. reality

Music as medicine featured image

Mind & Mood

Music as medicine

Weighing in on weight gain from antidepressants featured image

Mind & Mood

Weighing in on weight gain from antidepressants

Depression more likely during perimenopause than before or after featured image

Women's Health

Depression more likely during perimenopause than before or after

Hormone therapy benefits outweigh risks for younger women featured image

Women's Health

Hormone therapy benefits outweigh risks for younger women

Optimism may slow women's age-related physical decline featured image

Mind & Mood

Optimism may slow women's age-related physical decline

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