SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire -01/30/12)-
EmpowHER, an award-winning social health company for women,
today announces that Dr. Machelle Seibel will be joining the
company's Medical Advisory Board. A star among his
contemporaries, Dr. Seibel's expertise in menopause, weight and
stress management, sleep disorders and diabetes will help to
further strengthen EmpowHER's all-star panel of
industry-leading physicians.

Dr. Seibel served on the Harvard Medical School faculty for 19
years and is regarded as a pioneer in many areas of women's
health. He currently treats menopausal women with gynecologic
disorders interfering with mental health and/or sexual function
and creates award-winning educational content for women. In
addition, he works with companies and organizations to bring
entertaining educational health and wellness content to
consumers through his ground-breaking interactive product,
"HealthRock®."

"Dr. Seibel is an impressive and impassioned addition to
EmpowHER's Medical Advisory Board," says EmpowHER Media
Founder, Chairperson and CEO,
Michelle King Robson. "The combination of his vast
knowledge, out-of-the-box thinking and dedication to educating
others about their health and wellness will add another level
to our already-stellar panel of experts, and bring even more
value to the women who visit our site."

As a member of the Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Seibel will work
closely with EmpowHER's editorial leadership team to provide
clinical expertise for the company's award-winning and
industry-leading library of women's health and wellness content
-- categorizing over 700 women's health conditions and wellness
topics and 130,000 pieces of original video, article and
user-generated content. Dr. Seibel will join his fellow board
members in ensuring that the health and wellness content shared
with the over 250 million female health consumers who will
visit EmpowHER onsite and through syndication in 2012 is of the
highest quality.

Dr. Seibel's other achievements and accolades include:

Host for PBS and NYC TV episodes, frequent media expert

Repeatedly voted into Best Doctors in America

Past Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Sexuality,
Reproduction & Menopause

Distinguished Alumnus Award, the University of Texas
Medical Branch's highest honor, 2008

Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School
2004-present

Director, Complicated Menopause Program, University of
Massachusetts Medical School 2004-2011

Past Medical Director, Inverness Medical Innovations (now
Alere)

Author/editor 14 books and over 200 scientific articles

American Cancer Society New England Division Medical
Advisory Network

Advisory board of Dr. Mehmet Oz's HealthCorps initiative to
fight childhood obesity

"Joining the EmpowHER Medical Advisory Board is a unique and
wonderful opportunity," says Dr. Seibel. "The Company is
revolutionizing women's health and wellness by putting the
power back in women's hands through education and advocacy. I
look forward to joining my colleagues in helping to give women
a voice for their health and wellness."

Click here to view this release on EmpowHER.com and share
it with your social networks.

About EmpowHER Media
EmpowHER
Media is an award-winning, HON-certified,
social health company for women. The Company's flagship --
EmpowHER.com -- is the third most visited women's health and
wellness destination on the Web (comScore Media Metrix). As the
online home for female health consumers, EmpowHER.com offers a
unique value proposition of a peer health community and
premium, original women's health and wellness content. Health
care professionals, brands and agency professionals rely on
EmpowHER Media for reaching the most influential health and
wellness buyer on the Internet -- women. EmpowHER reached more
than 60 million women onsite and through syndication in 2011,
and expects to reach more than 250 million in 2012.

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