The use of forced electroshock therapy has long been condemned as a method of torture by the United Nations. Related. FDA bans electric shock devices for conditioning against aggressive behaviors.

Many may assume that electric shock therapy is an antiquated practice and a thing of the past. It’s been widely condemned by organizations like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the ...

Consideration of Gregoire's proposal to regulate aversive therapy follows a September ruling from the Supreme Judicial Court that allowed the center to continue using the electric shock devices ...

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's ...

The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), a special needs day and residential school in Canton, has become known for using electric shock devices on clients for self-injurious or aggressive behavior. It ...

BOSTON — 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 who ...

Since their introduction, the extracorporeal shockwave therapy machine devices have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat lateral epicondylitis and plantar fasciitis.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is once again proposing to ban the use of electric skin shock devices on students at the Canton-based Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, but the ...

Congress is stepping into the battle over whether disabled students should be given painful electric shocks as part of their therapy, bringing hope to advocates that the practice will finally come ...

A Massachusetts school can continue using electric shock devices on its students with intellectual disabilities after the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the Food and Drug Administration’s ban ...

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 ...