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Howard Wolinsky

Chicago

Journalist at Freelance

I'm freelance writer, editor of https://t.co/xotNCNeE5m and a lecturer at Medill School at Northwestern U. and MPH grad student at UIllinois@Chicago.

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  • You gotta' have heart--saving lives and prostate glands

    4 days ago | howardwolinsky.substack.com | Howard Wolinsky

    By Howard WolinskyBack on February 14, I observed the 20th anniversary of my widowmaker heart attack. It was on Valentine’s Day 2005 that I came thisclose to dying. Only 12% of men who have this type of heart attack outside a hospital make it out alive. I ran a first-person article on my experience back in 2005 in the Chicago Sun-Times, where I was the medical editor/writer.

  • On-again, off-again lesions on MRI scan? Dr. Westphalen responds.

    6 days ago | howardwolinsky.substack.com | Howard Wolinsky

    (Editor’s note. After a brief absence, our star abdominal radiology expert is back responding to questions. If you have questions about low-risk prostate cancer, your pathology report, your abdominal MRI scan, and diet/lifestyle, please send them to me at [email protected]. If you’re a paid subscriber, I’ll have news soon about plans for the Active Surveillance 2026 webinar.—HW.)A patient asks: Had an MRI about a year ago. The radiologist said I had a single PIRADS-3 lesion.

  • Can MRIs replace confirmatory biopsies? Depends on your Grade Group.

    1 week ago | howardwolinsky.substack.com | Howard Wolinsky

    By Howard WolinskyCan MRIs take over the heavy lifting in confirmatory biopsies? It depends on your Grade Group—it doesn’t do the trick for those with Gleason 3, favorable intermediate-risk cancers, but may be what the urologist ordered in Grade Group 1 (Gleason 6) patients.

  • Breaking: Home spit test may 'turn tide' on diagnosing prostate cancer, UK researchers say in NEJM

    1 week ago | howardwolinsky.substack.com | Howard Wolinsky

    By Howard WolinskyA new prostate cancer screening test based on DNA extracted from saliva beating PSA blood tests and MRI screening in finding clinically significant prostate cancer, UK researchers eported in the BARCODE 1 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

  • Just another little prick! It is blood test time again! 😳 Laughing your prostate off with Mark Stevenson

    2 weeks ago | howardwolinsky.substack.com | Howard Wolinsky

    Editor’s note: A small band of us write about our prostate cancers on the Substack newsletter platform with a humorous spin. Well, I try to add some laughs. We have agreed to an exchange program to share our takes on our cancers with our audiences. First up is Mark Stevenson, a UK-based Substack newsletter writer and podcaster.

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Howard Wolinsky
Howard Wolinsky @journotwit
4 Oct 23

See what DrCoop says on renaming GG1: https://t.co/cyIzOkVSH8 https://t.co/VIj3hrN0rE

Howard Wolinsky
Howard Wolinsky @journotwit
6 Sep 23

RT @journotwit: Colin McFarlane, British actor of ‘Dark Knight’ fame, diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer, taking on high-profile role…

Howard Wolinsky
Howard Wolinsky @journotwit
6 Sep 23

Check out Colin McFarlane--Commisioner Loeb in the Dark Knight--and his campaign to get out the word of prostate cancer, including active surveyillance. Brave man. https://t.co/9CfHWBxYUB