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FDA Panel Says No to Shock Therapy Device

[MedPage Today] GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Members of an FDA advisory panel said Thursday that the agency should ban the use of electrical stimulation devices for aversive conditioning in patients with self-injurious or aggressive behavior. The majority of the advisers on the agency’s Neurological Devices Panel said the device class poses “an unreasonable and substantial risk […]