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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

Aiming for longevity featured image

Staying Healthy

Aiming for longevity

Are women turning to cannabis for menopause symptom relief? featured image

Women's Health

Are women turning to cannabis for menopause symptom relief?

Poor sleep heightens risk of COPD flare ups featured image

Diseases & Conditions

Poor sleep heightens risk of COPD flare ups

Low vitamin D levels may increase odds of dementia featured image

Mind & Mood

Low vitamin D levels may increase odds of dementia

Women's heart attacks more strongly connected to different risk factors than men's featured image

Women's Health

Women's heart attacks more strongly connected to different risk factors than men's

More fallout from COVID-19 featured image

Diseases & Conditions

More fallout from COVID-19

Curbing the nation's deadliest cancer featured image

Cancer

Curbing the nation's deadliest cancer

When is the

Staying Healthy

When is the "right" time for weight loss surgery?

Meeting your exercise goals online featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Meeting your exercise goals online

Can self-employment promote better cardiovascular health for women? featured image

Women's Health

Can self-employment promote better cardiovascular health for women?

When can women with early-stage breast cancer skip radiation after lumpectomy? featured image

Cancer

When can women with early-stage breast cancer skip radiation after lumpectomy?

A care quarterback for older adults featured image

Staying Healthy

A care quarterback for older adults

Women who undergo earlier screening less likely to develop colorectal cancer featured image

Women's Health

Women who undergo earlier screening less likely to develop colorectal cancer

Drinking coffee might lengthen life featured image

Staying Healthy

Drinking coffee might lengthen life

Severe COVID infection may lead to noticeable cognitive loss featured image

Mind & Mood

Severe COVID infection may lead to noticeable cognitive loss

A healthy, tasty swap featured image

Staying Healthy

A healthy, tasty swap

Beyond hot flashes featured image

Women's Health

Beyond hot flashes

What to do when a diagnosis is elusive featured image

Diseases & Conditions

What to do when a diagnosis is elusive

Not-so-sweet slumber featured image

Staying Healthy

Not-so-sweet slumber

Long COVID symptoms differ between the sexes featured image

Women's Health

Long COVID symptoms differ between the sexes

Pregnancy's lasting toll featured image

Women's Health

Pregnancy's lasting toll

Women more likely than men to show atypical stroke symptoms featured image

Women's Health

Women more likely than men to show atypical stroke symptoms

Mediterranean diet may help ward off a dangerous pregnancy complication featured image

Women's Health

Mediterranean diet may help ward off a dangerous pregnancy complication

Tapering off antidepressants sensibly featured image

Mind & Mood

Tapering off antidepressants sensibly

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