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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

Opioid use disorder in older adults: More common than you might think featured image

Women's Health

Opioid use disorder in older adults: More common than you might think

Regular physical activity can boost mood featured image

Mind & Mood

Regular physical activity can boost mood

Social challenges such as isolation linked to earlier death featured image

Mind & Mood

Social challenges such as isolation linked to earlier death

Healthy habits might ward off long COVID featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Healthy habits might ward off long COVID

Women with migraines more likely to have pregnancy complications featured image

Women's Health

Women with migraines more likely to have pregnancy complications

The pain gap featured image

Women's Health

The pain gap

Silent suffering featured image

Cancer

Silent suffering

Good intentions, perilous results featured image

Staying Healthy

Good intentions, perilous results

Sowing the seeds of better health featured image

Staying Healthy

Sowing the seeds of better health

Cutting and self-harm: Why it happens and what to do featured image

Child & Teen Health

Cutting and self-harm: Why it happens and what to do

A muscle-building obsession in boys: What to know and do featured image

Child & Teen Health

A muscle-building obsession in boys: What to know and do

Sleep apnea may lead to weaker bones and teeth featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Sleep apnea may lead to weaker bones and teeth

Junk food addiction more common in women featured image

Mind & Mood

Junk food addiction more common in women

Emergency care visits after cannabis use rising among older adults featured image

Staying Healthy

Emergency care visits after cannabis use rising among older adults

The humble gallbladder featured image

Staying Healthy

The humble gallbladder

Preparing for success in the operating room — and beyond featured image

Staying Healthy

Preparing for success in the operating room — and beyond

Toss your reading glasses? featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Toss your reading glasses?

Invisible illness: More than meets the eye featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Invisible illness: More than meets the eye

Preventing ovarian cancer: Should women consider removing fallopian tubes? featured image

Women's Health

Preventing ovarian cancer: Should women consider removing fallopian tubes?

Vitamin D deficiency linked to loss of muscle strength featured image

Staying Healthy

Vitamin D deficiency linked to loss of muscle strength

Dementia and frailty increase odds of dying after major surgery featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Dementia and frailty increase odds of dying after major surgery

DASH diet even better for women's hearts featured image

Women's Health

DASH diet even better for women's hearts

IBS in the crosshairs featured image

Diseases & Conditions

IBS in the crosshairs

Prediabetes: A window of opportunity featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Prediabetes: A window of opportunity

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