After years of litigation, the FDA on Thursday issued a ban on Electrical Stimulation Devices (ESDs) — devices that were used to issue electrical shocks to the wearer in the hopes of changing behavior ...

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 ...

An animal welfare charity has called for the use of electric shock collars on dogs and cats to be banned on the Isle of Man.

A Massachusetts school for individuals with severe behavioral issues and intellectual disabilities can continue to use electric shock devices to stop students from harming themselves and others, a ...

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 ...

Despite pressure from disability advocates, federal lawmakers are backing off of a proposal to ban devices used to administer electric shocks on people with developmental disabilities. The U.S. House ...

BOSTON — Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, state Rep. Danielle Gregoire, D-Marlborough, is renewing her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock ...

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 ...

In hopes of getting the help she needed, a Massachusetts woman was sent to the Judge Rotenberg Center — known for using electric shock devices — to finish high school. Instead, Krista Cormier left ...

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 ...