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Melissa Malamut

Melissa Malamut, Senior Editor, Health, at Boston Magazine

As the Senior Editor, Health, Melissa assigns and edits lifestyle, health, fitness, beauty, and wellness content for bostonmagazine.com and the monthly print magazine. Melissa is a Massachusetts native, but spent half her life in South Florida and a few years living in NYC to boot. She loves all things Boston, NYC, and the Florida Gators, and has an argument about how she can love both the Red Sox and the Marlins that will knock your socks off. Her book, She's Got Game, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2010. Melissa is also certified to teach Pilates (but doesn't).

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Wellness

New Hampshire Hospital Worker Purposely Tainted Needles

So far, 44 cases of hepatitis C have been discovered across the country.

Wellness

Boston’s Fitness DVD Stars

You may already take their classes, and now you can bring them home with you.

John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark
Wellness

Picture of Health: Brigham and Women’s Arts Curriculum Program

How the hospital is using art to teach medical teamwork.

Wellness

Health Headlines: Amoxicillin Not Effective

Plus: Personal lubricants may increase STD risk, and more health headlines.

Wellness

How To Be Better on the Slopes

These exercises will up your winter sports game.

Wellness

What can Google and Twitter Behavior Teach Us About Migraines?

Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital analyzed Google searches for a headache study. And it might just work.

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Wellness

Cranberries for Health…and Facials

Cranberries have been used as medicine for centuries. Now, spas are using them topically.

Wellness

Health Headlines: Soldiers too Overweight for the Army

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Wellness

Fit Trend: Tabata

The Tabata method has been around since the 1970s but has new life as a fitness trend.

Wellness

Health Headlines: Mass. Residents Exposed to Secondhand Smoke

Plus: Yoga in schools; the coffee and cancer connection; and more health news.

Wellness

Find Out Your Genetic Disposition to Disease and Addiction

Plus: The brain chemical linked to suicide; UMass mentoring program and more health news.

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Wellness

Universities Cool Offerings for Students During Finals

Schools are offering free massages, coffee, yoga, food, and, of course, puppies!

Wellness

More Children Having Strokes

Plus: Brain fluid mistaken for allergies and more health news.

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Wellness

Massachusetts is the 4th Healthiest State in the Nation

Vermont grabbed the top spot and all of New England is in the top 10.

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Wellness

The Best Moves You Aren’t Doing

Add in these moves to spice up your routine.