The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut legislature is weighing a bill to extend the period of authorization to treat a person with electric shock therapy either with or without their consent.

After a ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court, a Massachusetts facility is allowed to continue to use controversial devices to electric shock its clients. But advocates are hoping to change that ...

BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)–Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, Rep. Danielle Gregoire renewed her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock device for people ...

More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks, designed to change their sexuality and gender identity, in NHS hospitals between 1965 and 1973, the BBC has discovered. Three Electric ...

NEW YORK -- Despite the controversy surrounding the procedure, electric shock therapy appears to be an effective treatment for psychiatric illness, and may lift patients' depression better than ...

Sept 7 (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, ...

New York City boutique studio Shock Therapy uses electric muscle stimulation and promises big results in less time—here's what happened when I tried it for myself. I used to go to this physical ...