Desperately sick Indonesians are flocking to railroads in a Jakarta suburb for an unconventional take on electric therapy from passing trains. The questionable practice stems from the poor health care ...

The term "shock therapy" refers to a set of radical economic reforms aimed at rapid economic stabilization, liberalization, privatization and the opening of the economy to international trade. Shock ...

BUENOS AIRES—Since Argentina’s self-styled anarcho-capitalist president, Javier Milei, launched economic shock therapy five months ago, retiree Angélica Galiazzi made a decision that shook her ...

As a psychiatric treatment, elec- troconvulsive therapy has had an image problem. One result, say Edward Shorter and David Healy, was the near absence for decades of what is a very effective approach ...