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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...