A 31-year-old man admitted in Franklin County Common Pleas Court to attacking his ex-girlfriend inside her apartment on Columbus’ West Side last August. He punched her three times in the face and ...

As her estranged husband held her against the wall, squeezing her neck with both hands, a Barberton, Ohio woman kept thinking, “I have to get free.” “I just wanted desperately to breathe,” the 46-year ...

Strangulation involves a person using hands or an item to cut off the ability to breathe. Strangulation victims may not show visible injuries, though they could have broken blood vessels in the eyes ...

Hannah Bows receives funding from the ESRC, British Academy & Home Office. An act seemingly once confined to bondage and “kink” communities has become mainstream. Despite the many risks to health ...

In a federally funded study, Mass General Brigham investigators found self-reported vision problems and traumatic stress are experienced years after strangulation . Around the globe, nearly one in ...