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 the Food and Drug Administration poised to again ban the use of electric shock devices on people with developmental disabilities, advocates are warning that some in Congress are quietly trying to ...

Electrical shock devices meant to interrupt self-injurious or aggressive behavior have been banned by federal officials in a rare move. The only facility known to use these devices in the US is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...