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.

Critics argued that the electrical shock devices were used excessively ... "The FDA intends to consider the needs of these patients should we finalize the proposed ban," the agency said in ...

Many a “shock” patient early in the war was harmed, not helped, by being kept too warm in an electric cradle and given drugs and rest, when he needed a transfusion and prompt operation.

Electric eels and fish were used by people ... to use the brain substance from animals that had undergone shock to alter the human patient's brain chemistry favorably. But this indirect method ...

Isy Sonabend's life was saved by the LifeVest wearable defibrillator and after he suffered a heart attack and cardiac arrest, ...

I just don't know how much credit I would give the bracelet. I never got used to it. It was an electric shock. Every time I was doing something, I got shocked probably 10 times as many times for ...

"The complainant, a 36-year-old local woman, reported receiving a patient, a 12-year-old boy, who was unconscious. "The victim was believed to have suffered an electric shock at a school in the ...

Many different methods were tried, from electric shock therapy to putting patients in different coloured rooms, and success rates varied considerably. For some patients it was thought that nothing ...