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 ...
Sept 7 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts institution for the developmentally disabled can continue to use controversial electric shock devices to address aggressive or self-harming behavior in residents, ...
An electric shock happens when an electric current passes through your body. This can burn both internal and external tissue and cause organ damage. While shocks from household appliances are usually ...
Federal regulators are taking a second stab at banning the controversial use of electroshock devices to manage the behavior of patients with intellectual and developmental disorders. The devices ...
The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) has been paying millions to send children with autism to live at the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), a controversial facility that is known ...
In this July 15, 2014 photograph, a therapist wears the remote shocking device on his belt as he monitors a student at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, Mass. State lawmakers heard ...
With the White House set to change hands, nearly 200 advocacy groups are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to finalize a ban on the use of devices that administer electric shocks to address ...
Ban regulates the practice of medicine, divided panel finds Petitioner is only U.S. school to use controversial treatment A federal appeals court has overturned the Food and Drug Administration's ban ...
This story was published in partnership with The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy. Correction & clarification: This story originally said the majority ...
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