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While most of us have known at least one woman with breast cancer, we may not know a woman who is struggling with ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer -- deemed a "silent killer" due to its difficulty to diagnose -- will be identified in more than 21,000 women this year in the United States alone . More than 15,000 women will die from the disease. Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancers in the US and is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among US women.

By Alan Greene, MD, FAAP

Each year, the first day of school is a new beginning, filled with new opportunities. This is true for kids -- but it's also true for germs. What a hospitable setting for germs to thrive: a mix of many kids, in close proximity, for hours together indoors, with less-than-perfect hygiene habits, all headed together into cold and flu season.

We don't want the germs' success to interfere with our children's.