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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Video clips of teens playing dangerous games are easily accessible on many social media sites. Richard Drury/DigitalVision via ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “When it comes to social media challenges, a lot of kids think that they’re just games,” says Dana. “Our son was bullied and dared ...

Undated -- Kids are choking themselves for the fun of it, sometimes fatally. In at least nine states in recent years, kids have been seriously injured or killed by "suffocation games" designed to ...

A Raleigh high school student is trying to warn teenagers about the dangers of the "choking game" that killed her childhood friend. Kris Marceno, a sophomore at Enloe High School, died Nov. 2 playing ...

ATLANTA – At least 82 youth have died as a result of playing what has been called “the choking game,” according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in today’s ...

Erik Robinson was a happy, healthy 6th grader at Lincoln Middle School, an “A” student and avid baseball player with a bright future ahead of him, until his sudden and untimely death by asphyxiation.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Steven Wolterning, Texas A&M University and Paige Williams, Texas A&M University (THE ...

The "choking game" has potentially deadly consequences, as players are challenged to temporarily strangle themselves by restricting oxygen to the brain. It sounds terrifying, but rough estimates ...