Author: West End Healthline

  • Life After the Vaccine

    Life After the Vaccine

    West End Healthline By Jonathan Dickman Now that COVID-19 vaccination of adults is in full force, people are daring to dream of a life that resembles…

  • Little Women of Color: Confronting STEM’s Diversity Problem

    Little Women of Color: Confronting STEM’s Diversity Problem

    West End Healthline By Jené Carter, MDWhen I began residing in the U.S. permanently sixteen years ago, I was unpleasantly surprised to discover the disproportionately…

  • Racism in Medicine

    Racism in Medicine

    West End Healthline By Jenny Zhang, MD The use of race in medicine has been an area of fierce debate for many years. Supporters of race-based…

  • Modern Medicine’s Promising COVID Vaccine

    Modern Medicine’s Promising COVID Vaccine

    West End Healthline By Jonathan Colin Rizo, MD, PGY2In December 2020, The BioNTech-Pfizer BNT162b2 and Moderna mRNA 1273 vaccines were granted emergency use authorization for the prevention…

  • If You Were Sick, Who Would Speak for You?

    If You Were Sick, Who Would Speak for You?

    West End Healthline by Courtney Klinkhammer, MD Among all the surprises 2020 brought us have been new challenges for getting the care we want. Every…

  • Vaccine Basics

    Vaccine Basics

    West End Healthlineby Lily Thompson, MD With the school year in full swing and the Saint Paul Public Schools preparing for a possible transition to…

  • West End Healthline: Beyond Counting Sheep

    West End Healthline: Beyond Counting Sheep

    Why it’s important, how to sleep better by Emily Friedrichsen, MDAs we find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic, our daily routines are significantly…

  • The Benefits of Yoga – More Than Just Stretching

    The Benefits of Yoga – More Than Just Stretching

    West End Healthline by Conor Richardson, MDThe practice of Yoga is more than 5,000 years old — from ancient Yogis, to people in the 21st…

  • West End Healthline Coronavirus: Time to worry?

    West End Healthline Coronavirus: Time to worry?

    by Jonathon Dickman, MD, PHdNearly everyone has now heard of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCOV) outbreak in China, and images of ships being quarantined and warnings…