Patients in Scotland were forced to receive electric shock treatment against their will almost 1,100 times last year – prompting calls for the NHS to stop using the ‘ethically unacceptable’ procedure.

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced that electrical shock devices used to discourage aggressive or self-harming behavior in patients with mental disabilities will be banned, ...

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 ...

For many of us who don’t know better, the very mention of electric shock (or electroconvulsive) therapy (ECT) conjures up dark thoughts of locked wards, nightmares and Boris Karloff movies of the ...

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 ...

The Rotenberg center campus in Canton includes a long, brightly lit hall, equipped with multiple options for residents to spend money earned for good behavior including a movie theater, candy store ...

A recent federal ban on electric-shock devices may**be overturned if the D.C. Circuit agrees with parents who trumpet their use in treating aggressive behavior. (Photo courtesy of Citizens Commission ...

Shock therapy might sound outdated and even somewhat archaic, but low levels of electric stimulation has proven to have a variety of benefits when used appropriately. The FDA just gave a thumbs up to ...

IN this little book of forty-seven pages Dr. Lauffer, the medical director of the Westing-house Electric and Manufacturing Company, East Pittsburg, deals with the subject of artificial respiration as ...