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 ...

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 have ...

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 ...

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 move appears ...

A startup called Flow Neuroscience is putting a new spin on an old treatment for depression. Does it work? Is it safe? A whopping 18 percent of adults in the U.S. struggle with depression according to ...

BOSTON — Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, state Rep. Danielle Gregoire, D-Marlborough, is renewing her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock ...