April 8, 2004 Trauma Highly Prevalent Among Delinquents CHICAGO— Almost every boy and girl currently detained in a juvenile facility in the United States has experienced at least one major trauma, and a large proportion of these children have post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study in the April issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.…

April 9, 2004 RIC Delivers Revolutionary Wheelchair The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) has become one of the first U.S. distributors of a power wheelchair that can climb and descend stairs; traverse sand, gravel, and grass; navigate over 4-inch curbs; and rise on two wheels. Mike D’Arcy of Plainfield, Illinois (shown here with his family),…

In Memoriam (Michael Ravitch) Michael M. Ravitch, PhD, associate professor and former director of the Office of Medical Education at the Feinberg School of Medicine, died February 27 in his Evanston, Illinois, home; he was 61. A native of Baltimore, Dr. Ravitch began undergraduate studies at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, wanting to…