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 ...

CITYWIDE — Even if you’ve never heard of it, there’s a good chance your son or daughter has. Researchers say the “choking game,” a risky activity in which adolescents deprive their brains of oxygen by ...

Sixteen percent of Sam Houston State University students responding to a survey about “The Choking Game” reported to having played the dumb-ass, potentially fatal game. The Crime Victims’ Institute ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a 2009 survey of eighth graders in Oregon, one in 16 said they had participated in the "choking game," according to research published Monday. The game -- a misnomer ...

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 ...

PHOENIX - At least four Arizona teenagers have died since January 2005 while playing the choking game that's sparking warning cries from parents, counselors and school officials. Two foundations ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A new report suggests a large number of eighth-graders in Oregon have taken part in the "choking game," the dangerous practice of choking each other to get a feeling of ...

Media outlets are reporting that a California teen who died entangled in a Bowflex exercise machine had been playing "the choking game." In the two years since we reported in-depth on the crazy, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Between 1995 and 2007, at least 82 children and adolescents in the United States died as a result of playing the "choking game," according to a report released Thursday.