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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

Relief or risk? Using cannabis as we age featured image

Staying Healthy

Relief or risk? Using cannabis as we age

For weight loss, minimally processed diets beat ultra-processed versions featured image

Nutrition

For weight loss, minimally processed diets beat ultra-processed versions

Exercise may lower risk of premature death among people with diabetes featured image

Exercise & Fitness

Exercise may lower risk of premature death among people with diabetes

Fast walking may lengthen your life featured image

Staying Healthy

Fast walking may lengthen your life

When celiac disease strikes later in life featured image

Diseases & Conditions

When celiac disease strikes later in life

How “inflammaging” shapes our health featured image

Diseases & Conditions

How “inflammaging” shapes our health

The head-scratching dilemma of itchy nipples and breasts featured image

Women's Health

The head-scratching dilemma of itchy nipples and breasts

A green-Mediterranean diet may slow brain aging featured image

Nutrition

A green-Mediterranean diet may slow brain aging

Dogs and cats may slow cognitive decline featured image

Mind & Mood

Dogs and cats may slow cognitive decline

Ultra-processed foods linked to poor health outcomes featured image

Nutrition

Ultra-processed foods linked to poor health outcomes

Flavonoid-rich foods may fuel healthier aging featured image

Staying Healthy

Flavonoid-rich foods may fuel healthier aging

Navigating menopause after cancer featured image

Women's Health

Navigating menopause after cancer

The case for watching your blood sugar featured image

Diseases & Conditions

The case for watching your blood sugar

Spice up your holidays featured image

Nutrition

Spice up your holidays

Is your sleep position helping or hurting you? featured image

Staying Healthy

Is your sleep position helping or hurting you?

Frequent standing may improve blood pressure after menopause featured image

Women's Health

Frequent standing may improve blood pressure after menopause

FDA removes menopause hormone therapy black box warnings featured image

Women's Health

FDA removes menopause hormone therapy black box warnings

Exercise may inhibit breast cancer growth featured image

Cancer

Exercise may inhibit breast cancer growth

Artificial sweeteners may speed declines in memory and thinking featured image

Mind & Mood

Artificial sweeteners may speed declines in memory and thinking

The overlap between back pain and pelvic floor dysfunction featured image

Women's Health

The overlap between back pain and pelvic floor dysfunction

The 3 a.m. wake-up: Why it happens to women more often after 55 featured image

Women's Health

The 3 a.m. wake-up: Why it happens to women more often after 55

Red light therapy for skin care featured image

Staying Healthy

Red light therapy for skin care

Shake the salt habit featured image

Nutrition

Shake the salt habit

What raises your risk for gynecologic cancer? featured image

Women's Health

What raises your risk for gynecologic cancer?

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