It’s happened again. Two weeks ago, Brayden Daher, a 5-year-old boy from Bellevue, Wash., was nearly strangled when he got a Yo-Yo Water Ball wrapped around his neck. “He was purple, almost blue, and ...

A federal agency will take another look at Yo-Yo Water Balls, a popular toy blamed for injuring more than 400 children across the country, after a detailed report on the hazards of the toy in this ...

The yo-yos are a coloured plastic ball with soft spikes. The ball is filled with a glutinous liquid and attached to a stretchy, thick length of rubber. They are intended to be used as a bouncing yo-yo ...

PARENTS are being urged to be vigilant when toy shopping this Christmas, particularly when shopping online or buying cheap imports. The warning comes as the federal and state governments, with the ...

They're popular, they're ubiquitous and they're dangerous. And Health Canada wants yo-yo balls off the market. The department issued a warning yesterday urging parents to safely dispose of any yo-yo ...

Yo-yo balls have a more dangerous safety record than other products that have been recalled, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said in a letter Tuesday, questioning the failure of a federal consumer ...

Yo-yo water balls, the stretchy, rubbery toys that are sold near checkout lines for as little as $1, pose a potential strangulation hazard to children but will not be recalled, according to a federal ...

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Health Canada is warning Canadians to throw out a toy called the "yo-yo ball" because it may pose a strangulation hazard to children. The yo-yo ball, or yo-ball, is made of a soft, pliable plastic ...