Arun Rath: This is GBH’s All Things Considered. I’m Arun Rath. A lot of us might assume electric shock therapy is a thing of the past. It's been widely condemned by organizations like the U.S.

The Judge Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts will continue to be the only school, hospital or residential facility in the U.S. allowed to use... Disability Advocates Fight Ruling Allowing Electric ...

The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut legislature is weighing a bill to extend the period of authorization to treat a person with electric shock therapy either with or without their consent.

After a ruling by the Supreme Judicial Court, a Massachusetts facility is allowed to continue to use controversial devices to electric shock its clients. But advocates are hoping to change that ...

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.

A Massachusetts school can continue to use electric shock devices to modify behavior by students with intellectual disabilities, a federal court said this month, overturning an attempt by the ...

Electric shock treatment is associated perhaps most with the 1950s and the questionable practices of sectioning people of various eccentricities and locking them up in asylums, as well as to the ...

A Massachusetts school has won an appeal to use electric shock therapy on mentally disabled pupils. A federal court ruled that an earlier FDA ban on the therapy had been outside the agency's area of ...

If you’ve sustained an injury to a tendon, elbow, or hamstring, your doctor might recommend shockwave therapy. Before you balk at this painful-sounding technique, though, it may be comforting to know ...

Each year, more than 100,000 Americans undergo electroconvulsive therapy, also known as "electroshock treatment" and "shock therapy." Electroconvulsive therapy may seem like it's from medieval times, ...

ALBANY — Legislation that would ban New York's use of an out-of-state behavioral facility that uses a controversial form of treatment known as "aversion therapy" passed a key state Senate committee ...