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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent federal ban on electric-shock devicesmaybe overturned if the D.C. Circuit agrees with parents who trumpet their use in treating aggressive behavior. (Photo courtesy of Citizens Commission on ...

NEWSCENTER FIVE. THANK YOU. A PROPOSED BAN OF THE DEVICES THAT ADMINISTER ELECTRIC SHOCKS TO DISABLED STUDENTS AT THE JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER IN CANTON IS BACK ON TRACK IN CONGRESS. FIVE INVESTIGATES ...

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 ...