The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced that electrical shock devices used to discourage aggressive or self-harming behavior in patients with mental disabilities will be banned, ...

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With a sign in hand, a 16-year-old autistic Massachusetts resident stood along a busy Canton road just outside a facility still using electric shock devices on people like him. “This is a cause I care ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed banning electrical stimulation devices designed to reduce self-injurious or aggressive behavior. The FDA cited these devices as posing an ...

As a teenager, Jennifer Msumba had “very strong self-harm behaviors,” including putting her head through windows. Hoping to get her help, her parents sent her to a center in Massachusetts, where she ...

Jennifer Msumba regularly wakes up screaming “no stop,” she told the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities during a hearing on Monday. Her nightmares have ...

WASHINGTON (CN) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a Food and Drug Administration ban on the use of electric shock devices to treat overly aggressive kids at a Massachusetts institution ...

Shock therapy might sound outdated and even somewhat archaic, but low levels of electric stimulation has proven to have a variety of benefits when used appropriately. The FDA just gave a thumbs up to ...

Congress is moving to ban devices used to administer electric shocks on people with developmental disabilities in an effort to modify their behavior, a practice that advocates have long decried as ...

Electrical shock devices meant to interrupt self-injurious or aggressive behavior have been banned by federal officials in a rare move. The only facility known to use these devices in the US is the ...

The ban is national, but it is squarely targeted at a single school in Massachusetts that has been using electric shocks to condition students’ behavior for decades. By Jacey Fortin In a rare and ...