Jim Liebelt

In their latest report, The Importance of Family Dinners VI, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) examined the link between...

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A new study is the first to show physical and mental health benefits of sports participation in 12- to 14-year-old adolescents.

Many teens view texting while driving as less risky than drunken driving despite a sustained campaign against texting behind the wheel and research...

A new study finds there may be a link between early puberty and girls living in higher-income households without a biological father.

A study published in this month's journal Pediatrics said that concussion are the most common injury among teen athletes and is often...

A new study suggests that teen acne -- rather than acne treatments -- are at the root of depression and suicide risk.

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New research has linked hours at the computer with achievement test scores and behavior and found little sign of harm for children ages 6 to 12 as...

One-third of American teens aren't learning about contraceptives during sex education classes.

42.5% of teens admit to texting during class, and 80% of these students have never gotten in trouble for it.

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A new study says that college students who are on Facebook while studying or doing homework wind up getting 20 percent lower grades than students...

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Some teens are engaging in "self-embedding," an extreme form of self-injury, in which people -- often adolescents -- insert objects made of glass,...

Texting by American adults has increased substantially over the past year, but still does not approach the magnitude of text messages exchanged by...

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New research finds little support for the hypothesis that marijuana is a "gateway" drug leading teens to the use of harder drugs in adulthood.