In a 2-1 decision, a federal court of appeals in Washington, DC struck down the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ban on electrical stimulation devices (ESDs) used at a single facility in Massachusetts to treat self-injurious behavior (SIB) or aggressive behavior (AB).   The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, in siding with the plaintiffs, found that FDA’s ban on the devices for their particular use is not supported under statute and infringes on the practic...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it intends to ban electrical stimulation devices (ESDs) used to treat aggressive and self-injurious behaviors after an advisory panel recommended banning the devices in 2014. According to FDA, ESDs are only used to treat aggressive and self-injurious behaviors at a single US facility, the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center in Canton, MA. FDA proposed the ban in a notice appearing in the Federal Register on Friday, saying ...