Changes in Self-Reported Adult Health and Household Food Security With the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit Monthly Payments.

Importance: The 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit (ECTC) provided families with children monthly payments from July 2021 to December 2021. The association of this policy with adult health is understudied.

Objective: To examine changes in adult self-reported health and household food security before and during ECTC monthly payments.

How Should Academic Health Centers Desegregate Health Professions Education?

One expression of structural injustice in the United States is delivery of health care according to patients' race and insurance status. This de facto segregation in academic health centers limits community organizations' and leaders' capacity to dismantle racism and undermines health equity. This commentary on a case considers this problem, argues why academic health centers are ethically obliged to respond, and offers strategies to do so.

Leveraging Clerkship Experiences to Address Segregated Care: A Survey-Based Approach to Student-Led Advocacy.

Many academic medical centers (AMCs) have a history of separating patients on the basis of insurance status. In New York State, where Black and Latino patients are more than twice as likely to have Medicaid as white patients, this practice leads to racial segregation in healthcare. Emerging evidence suggests that this segregation of care is detrimental to both patient care and medical education.

COVID-19 and Public Policy Imperatives: A Trainee Call to Action.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the flaws in the U.S. employer-based health insurance system, magnified racial disparities in health and health care, and overwhelmed the country's underfunded public health infrastructure.

Today's Students, Tomorrow's Physicians: Opinions on Enacted and Prospective Health Care Policies.

Future physicians will be key stakeholders in the formation, implementation, and success of health care policies enacted during their careers, though little is known of their opinions of enacted and proposed policies since the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Looking to the Future: Medical Students' Views on Health Care Reform and Professional Responsibility.

Purpose: Although medical students will influence the future U.S. health care system, their opinions on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have not been assessed since the 2016 presidential election and elimination of key ACA provisions.

Single Lipid Molecule Dynamics on Supported Lipid Bilayers with Membrane Curvature.

The plasma membrane is a highly compartmentalized, dynamic material and this organization is essential for a wide variety of cellular processes. Nanoscale domains allow proteins to organize for cell signaling, endo- and exocytosis, and other essential processes. Even in the absence of proteins, lipids have the ability to organize into domains as a result of a variety of chemical and physical interactions.