Study Tracks Injuries Suffered in Fights

About 8 percent of all high-school students have been in a fight that resulted in an injury requiring medical attention during the past month, the results of a federal study show.

The study, completed by researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, found that boys were more likely to get into fights than girls, and that minority students were more likely to engage in fighting than non-minority students.

The results of the study give cause for alarm, the researchers write, since the "demographic patterns of physical fighting in this report are consistent...