Maureen Salamon

1 week ago | bismarcktribune.com | Maureen Salamon

Perhaps your morning beeline to the coffee pot got delayed, fueling a caffeine-withdrawal headache. But if your remedy for that involved washing down a couple of ibuprofen or other anti-inflammatory pain reliever with your longed-for java, you unwittingly magnified the drug’s effects, essentially increasing your dose. The culprit? Your now-empty mug of coffee.

2 weeks ago | health.harvard.edu | Maureen Salamon

Research we're watching June 1, 2025 By Maureen Salamon, Executive Editor, Harvard Women's Health Watch Reviewed by Toni Golen, MD, Editor in Chief, Harvard Women's Health Watch; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing; Contributor Scientists examined 28 earlier studies, involving a total of more than 3.2 million women.

3 weeks ago | thebeaconnewspapers.com | Maureen Salamon

Photo by Sies Kranen | Unsplash.com For neuroscientist Sara Lazar, a form of meditation called open awareness is as fundamental to her day as breathing.

1 month ago | health.harvard.edu | Maureen Salamon

Here's what to know and do to evade bacteria that sickens millions every year. May 7, 2025 By Maureen Salamon, Executive Editor, Harvard Women's Health Watch Reviewed by Howard E. LeWine, MD, Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing; Editorial Advisory Board Member, Harvard Health Publishing Pop quiz: what is Salmonella? If you've ever had a run-in with this bacteria, you know it can cause a food-borne illness called salmonellosis, a form of food poisoning.

1 month ago | bismarcktribune.com | Maureen Salamon

Katherine Lyman doesn’t want to see her patients only when they’re wearing an exam gown; she wants to observe them with their street clothes on, too. That’s how the geriatric nurse practitioner at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center can readily assess how much weight an older adult may have lost without even noticing. One of the conditions Lyman is trying to spot is anorexia of aging, an under-the-radar phenomenon that often carries a host of health implications.