The FDA is back to square one in its efforts to ban the use of electric shocks to stop aggressive behavior or self-injury, in a process that has spanned decades. The agency previously took the rare ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Massachusetts school wins court battle to use electric shock therapy on self-harming disabled students A Massachusetts school has ...

Judges on the D.C. Circuit held that the FDA can fully ban a medical device, but it cannot pick and choose which purposes the device can be used for. (Photo courtesy of Citizens Commission on Human ...

Round two: The FDA is going back to battle with a Massachusetts school over a controversial electrical shock device. This week, the federal agency proposed a new ban on “electrical stimulation devices ...