Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill to ban the use of pain-causing procedures on people with disabilities in Massachusetts has again died in committee.

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 ...

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 US Food and Drug Administration is pushing to ban electric shock devices that are used only by one school nationwide: a controversial Canton facility for students with emotional and intellectual ...