Dr. Jay Harness, President of The American Society of Breast Surgeon based at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Orange, CA explains why media cover in women’s cancer stories could and should be more positive.

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What type of medication should a woman take if diagnosed with hypothyroidism?

Persistent AFib does not convert back to normal rhythm on its own. Medical treatment is needed to stop the AFib.

EmpowHer asks Dr. Neil Binkley if there's a connection to drinking carbonated soft drinks and porous bones?

Dr. Binkley: That sounds like a simple question. The short answer is yes, there is an association. As a society, we have replaced a food that has a large amount of important bone nutrients -— milk -— with a food that has almost no nutritional value -— diet soda.

Dr. Leon Speroff recently stepped down as director for the Women's Health Research Unit at Oregon Health & Science University

EmpowHer: How does hormone replacement therapy affect breast cancer and heart disease?

Forty years ago in 1967 nearly 200 nuns in the Omaha area enrolled in a study run by Creighton University researcher Dr. Robert Heaney. Results gathered over 25 years of in-hospital studies and later from bi-yearly checkups served as the basis for the calcium intake recommendations for adult women.

EmpowHer: Is it true that 80 percent of those affected by osteoporosis are women? Is that true or false?

EmpowHer: "Doctor, talk with us about the connection then between vitamin D, calcium, and osteoporosis.”

EmpowHer: Talk about identification. How do health care professionals identify a patient who has osteoporosis? What are the tests called, and are these tests commonly covered in most health insurance plans?

EmpowHer: “If the average woman has a calcium intake below what is recommended and all I am seeing are young girls drinking sodas and not milk, at what age should young women start taking daily calcium? Also, if vitamin D plays such a vital role shouldn’t they be taking a calcium supplement with vitamin D at a young age?”