Maura Healey is asking for an end to the controversial therapy that uses painful electric shocks on people ... by the federal agency to ban the shock devices with a court challenge.

“In addition to electrical shocking devices to inflict pain on racing horses, illegal equine and human drugs were discovered, as well as gambling devices and paraphernalia, and large caches of ...

Electric eels and fish were used by people in ancient times to treat headaches and mental illness. The practice came back in 1937 when Ugo Cerletti (1877-1963) and Lucino Bini (b. 1908) treated ...