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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

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

Battling a

Diseases & Conditions

Battling a "brain storm"

When sex hurts featured image

Women's Health

When sex hurts

National task force updates recommendations on hormone therapy after menopause featured image

Women's Health

National task force updates recommendations on hormone therapy after menopause

Shingles linked with higher risk for heart disease and stroke featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Shingles linked with higher risk for heart disease and stroke

Exercise can reduce fatigue in breast cancer patients undergoing radiation featured image

Women's Health

Exercise can reduce fatigue in breast cancer patients undergoing radiation

A mask that's hard to shed featured image

Diseases & Conditions

A mask that's hard to shed

Short on slumber featured image

Staying Healthy

Short on slumber

Anxiety overload featured image

Mind & Mood

Anxiety overload

At-home tests: Help or hindrance? featured image

Staying Healthy

At-home tests: Help or hindrance?

Shift work can harm sleep and health: What helps? featured image

Staying Healthy

Shift work can harm sleep and health: What helps?

Late-stage cervical cancer on the rise: What to know featured image

Cancer

Late-stage cervical cancer on the rise: What to know

Women lack information on life after breast reconstruction featured image

Women's Health

Women lack information on life after breast reconstruction

Alcohol may lower pregnancy odds in women undergoing fertility treatment — but caffeine is no problem featured image

Women's Health

Alcohol may lower pregnancy odds in women undergoing fertility treatment — but caffeine is no problem

Strength training might lengthen life featured image

Staying Healthy

Strength training might lengthen life

Take arms against perplexing pain featured image

Pain

Take arms against perplexing pain

Managing the unthinkable featured image

Mind & Mood

Managing the unthinkable

A pain in the rear featured image

Diseases & Conditions

A pain in the rear

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