Growing up in bad neighborhoods has a devastating impact on a child's chances of graduating from high school, a new study shows.

New research shows that playing violent video games and watching violent moves make people less empathic and sensitive to the suffering of others.

University of Michigan researchers found that 3-year-old children exposed to two or more hours of TV a day were nearly three times more likely to be overweight than children who either watched or were in a room with a TV on for fewer than two hours a day,