The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed banning electrical stimulation devices designed to reduce self-injurious or aggressive behavior. The FDA cited these devices as posing an ...

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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 ...

A Massachusetts facility is allowed to continue to use controversial devices to electric shock its clients after a ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday. The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), a ...

The state generally hasn’t taken advantage of its opportunity to challenge in annual Probate Court hearings the use of skin shocks. That should change in light of the SJC’s decision. Using electric ...

When it comes to health and safety, the UK’s 13-amp plug socket is an impressive feat. There are the switches (which other countries notably lack) and then there are the plastic shutters that close ...

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 ...

Mandatory requirements designed to detect fire-causing conditions, stop electric shocks and keep children from sticking foreign objects into electrical outlets would be cut from the safety code.