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FDA bans shock device used on mentally disabled patients

Federal officials on Wednesday banned electrical shock devices used to discourage aggressive, self-harming behavior in patients with mental disabilities. The announcement from the Food and Drug ...
WBUR

What to know about the FDA's new effort to ban a shock device only used at this Mass. school

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 ...
Yahoo

Sent to school that uses electric shocks, Mass. woman runs for office to protect others

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In hopes of getting the help she needed, a Massachusetts woman was sent to the Judge Rotenberg Center — known for using electric ...
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This school used electric shock devices on disabled students for decades. The FDA just banned them.

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 ...