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A decades-long fight over an electric shock treatment led to an FDA ...

The FDA has banned a form of electric shock treatment used on students with extreme behavior problems. So why is a Massachusetts school ...

FDA Proposes New Ban of Electrical Stimulation Devices

The Proposal to Ban Electrical Stimulation Devices for Self-Injurious or Aggressive Behavior will be open for comment until May 28, 2024. The ...

FDA May Ban Electroshock Devices Used on Some Psychiatric ...

MONDAY, March 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Federal regulators are taking a second stab at banning the controversial use of electroshock devices ...

Congressional Efforts to Maintain Use of Electric Shock Devices ...

The FDA ended its comment period on the proposed ban in May, receiving over 8,700 responses. Previously, in 2020, the FDA banned the devices, ...

FDA to ban electric shock devices for behavior control—again

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 ...

Court Overturns F.D.A. Ban on School's Electric Shock Devices

The ban sought to stop a school in Massachusetts from using shock therapy to prevent harmful behaviors in students with disabilities. Share ...

Proposal To Ban Electrical Stimulation Devices for Self-Injurious or ...

ESDs are not used in electroconvulsive therapy, sometimes called electroshock therapy or ECT, which is unrelated to this rulemaking. 1 ...

FDA Ban On Shock Devices For Those With Developmental ...

... banning a device that's used by court order. Since all of the individuals participating in shock treatment at the Judge Rotenberg Center are ...

FDA tries again to ban electric shock devices - Axios

The Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban use of electrical stimulation devices meant to reduce self-injurious or aggressive behavior.

Autism Speaks opposes ruling allowing electric shock therapy

The ban on electrical stimulation devices (ESDs) to treat aggressive or harming behaviors, typically in children and adults severely affected by ...

Electric shock therapy is still allowed in one Mass. treatment facility ...

Rath: The FDA banned electric shock therapy in 2020, but a federal court overturned the ban, accusing the agency of overstepping its authority.

Ban Electroshock Therapy - NeuroClastic

Using electrical stimulation devices to treat self-injurious and aggressive behavior is legal in many parts of the US. Help us change that.

U.S. House of Representatives Votes to Ban Electric Shock Devices

We are hopeful that this legislation will once and for all eliminate the use of electric shock as a “behavioral therapy” for people with intellectual and ...

FDA Again Tries to Ban 'Aversive' Shock Treatment | MedPage Today

Agency proposed a new ban to eliminate shock therapy for self-injurious or aggressive behavior.

#StopTheShock - Autistic Self Advocacy Network

2020 – The FDA issued the rule that banned the electric shock devices. But the JRC did not start to follow the rule. Instead, the JRC sued the FDA so they could ...

Shocking! Court Overturns FDA Ban on Electric Shock Treatments

Shocking! Court Overturns FDA Ban on Electric Shock Treatments. A divided federal appeals court recently overturned the ban by U.S. Food and ...

Is It Time to Ban Electroconvulsive Therapy for Children?

A joint document from the World Health Organisation and the United Nations recently concluded that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) "is not ...

Appeals court axes FDA ban of electric shock on the disabled

A federal appeals court has overturned the FDA's ban on the use of electric shock devices on people with mental disabilities by a ...

FDA Takes Rare Step to Ban Electrical Stimulation Devices for Self ...

“Through advancements in medical science, there are now more treatment options available to reduce or stop self-injurious or aggressive behavior ...

Senate Fails to #StopTheShock - Autistic Self Advocacy Network

ASAN is heartbroken and furious that the United States Senate has failed to ban the use of the electric shock devices used at the Judge ...