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 ...

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 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 ...

A bill to ban the use of pain-causing procedures on people with disabilities in Massachusetts has again died in committee. Supporters say the bill would have effectively banned the use of ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration claims the shock devices used at a Massachusetts school are unreasonably harmful, and have proposed banning the devices. But new federal legislation could prevent ...

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 ...

With the White House set to change hands, nearly 200 advocacy groups are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to finalize a ban on the use of devices that administer electric shocks to address ...

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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 ...