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, ...

(Reuters) - A Massachusetts institution for the developmentally disabled can continue to use controversial electric shock devices to address aggressive or self-harming behavior in residents, the state ...

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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 ...

The state generally hasn’t taken advantage of its opportunity to challenge in annual Probate Court hearings the use of skin shocks. That should change in light of the SJC’s decision. Using electric ...

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 ...

A Massachusetts school for the developmentally disabled, and parents of its students, on Friday urged a federal appeals court to overturn a federal ban on its controversial use of electric shock ...

The effects of an electric shock vary depending on its source and severity. For example, shocks from light switches may be mild, while contact with industrial power sources can cause severe effects.

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., overturned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ban on the use of electric shock devices on people with mental disabilities by a Massachusetts ...

A student wearing an electrical shocker device on her leg lines up with her classmates after lunch at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Mass. AP The Food and Drug Administration on ...