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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

Dark chocolate may reduce risk of diabetes featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Dark chocolate may reduce risk of diabetes

Hidden battles: Keeping cancer secret featured image

Cancer

Hidden battles: Keeping cancer secret

Pelvic floor SOS featured image

Women's Health

Pelvic floor SOS

Stopping sepsis in its tracks featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

Stopping sepsis in its tracks

Boosting breast cancer survival featured image

Cancer

Boosting breast cancer survival

Decoding rheumatoid arthritis featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Decoding rheumatoid arthritis

Cataract surgery may lower dementia risk featured image

Mind & Mood

Cataract surgery may lower dementia risk

More water may equate to more health benefits featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

More water may equate to more health benefits

Even small amounts of extra exercise could lower blood pressure featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Even small amounts of extra exercise could lower blood pressure

Do you need a mental health day? featured image

Mind & Mood

Do you need a mental health day?

When aging steals hunger featured image

Diet and nutrition

When aging steals hunger

How your dentist could save your life featured image

Diseases & Conditions

How your dentist could save your life

When pills pose problems featured image

Healthy aging and longevity

When pills pose problems

Bridging the gap: Dementia communication strategies featured image

Mind & Mood

Bridging the gap: Dementia communication strategies

Fitness face-off featured image

Exercise and Fitness

Fitness face-off

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

Abdominal fat linked to widespread, chronic pain featured image

Pain

Abdominal fat linked to widespread, chronic pain

CDC updates recommendations for pneumococcal and COVID vaccines featured image

Diseases & Conditions

CDC updates recommendations for pneumococcal and COVID vaccines

Pap smears or self-swabs? featured image

Women's Health

Pap smears or self-swabs?

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

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

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