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Alison Palkhivala

@alisonpalk.bsky.social
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Vaccines, science, empathy, and all the good stuff that goes with it I'm a medical writer #NEISVOID

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Dick Zoutman @dickzoutman.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social taking $50 billion OUT OF healthcare transfers to provinces!! This is effectively an amputation (although a slow and agonizing one over 10 years)!
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Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer could slash more than $50B from public health care over a decade
Planned changes to Ottawa’s Canada Health Transfer in the 2028-2029 fiscal year will likely result cuts of more than $50 billion for health care in Canada’s provinces and territories over the subseque...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 07/07/2026
Cutting healthcare for vulnerable asylum seekers signals a dangerous shift towards anti-migrant policy—and will lower the standard of healthcare for all. By Hana Sherafati Zanganeh @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Federal refugee healthcare cuts are going to be costly | CCPA
Cutting healthcare for vulnerable asylum seekers signals a dangerous shift towards anti-migrant policy—and will lower the standard of healthcare for all
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Canadian women are struggling to find help for menopause www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... @medscape.com @medscapeerik.bsky.social @drjengunter.bsky.social
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Lack of Menopause Care in Canada Reflects Systemic Issues
A dearth of primary care providers and critical lack of education among healthcare workers on how to manage menopause leave Canadian women without help.
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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Summer Bonus: The ongoing Covid pandemic is transforming everything all around us and nobody is noticing
Bonus Climate change too!
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 01/07/2026
Maternal Mortality in Canada: Beyond the Delivery Room: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... @alisonpalk.bsky.social reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca
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Maternal Mortality in Canada: Beyond the Delivery Room
Improving maternal mortality in Canada requires the prioritization of women’s health, especially during the reproductive years, experts say.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 24/06/2026
Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The Volunteer Pilots Taking Abortion Patients Where They Need to Go open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
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The Volunteer Pilots Taking Abortion Patients Where They Need to Go
Elevated Access organizes volunteer pilots to fly abortion patients across the country— here's how it works
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Nara Organics recalled its Whole Milk Organic Infant Formula sold nationwide after three children in three states developed infant botulism. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Nara Organics recalls infant formula after 3 babies are diagnosed with botulism
The infants were treated after consuming Nara Organics Whole Milk Organic Infant Formula, federal health officials said.
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
if you're a physician, do you have an obligation to be on social media? www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Canadian Physicians Fight the Good Fight on Social Media
Despite a lack of support from their community and a lot of mudslinging, some doctors take to social media out of a desire to educate and defend the vulnerable.
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A story on maternal mortality in Canada that I wrote for Medscape. Along with another I wrote recently on women and cardiovascular health, the experts I interviewed all said the same thing: women's health is not taken seriously enough in Canada. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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What Is Canada Doing About Rising Maternal Mortality?
Without a robust national surveillance system and confidential reporting, it’s impossible to know where Canada stands on maternal mortality.
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The inside of my mask smells like potato chips
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"A year ago, in Mpongwe, there was one case like this each month, or maybe two. In January this year, there were 28 new cases; in February, 28 more; in March, seven more." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
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AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Feeling angry makes people more likely to share news from low-credibility sources www.psypost.org/feeling-angr... From study: "...moral anger as a peripheral cue that facilitates impulsive sharing..." We can't let rage and the exploitive algorithms win! 💪 Pause.
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Feeling angry makes people more likely to share news from low-credibility sources
A new study reveals that feeling morally angry makes you more likely to share misinformation online. Researchers found that anger causes people to act impulsively and ignore source credibility, fuelin...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 24/04/2026
fondly recalling when Trump passed tf out basically every day of the Stormy Daniels trial and it was a one-day story in the MSM at best
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/04/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Dr Nili Kaplan-Myrth, MD PhD @nilikm.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
On Yom HaShoah we remember 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. My grandfather’s four sisters and parents were murdered in concentration camps. As a Jewish Canadian, I was threatened 2021-2025. The Crown just decided to drop this court case. Nothing done. What use are hate laws? @cbcnews.ca
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Immunity debt proponents own this. Media who platform minimizers own this.
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
#MedSky These things are noticed. Patients and colleagues may not confront you, because there are power imbalances and other factors… but they are noticed, and not in a good way. Please stay home when sick. Wear a properly fitted respirator at work. It’s the professional thing to do.
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Andrew 🇿🇦 Davis @thrownintosol.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If anyone says antisemitism isn't a massive problem right now, I KNOW they don't even follow a single Jewish person.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
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Her husband is a double amputee in ICE prison. She confronted Kristi Noem over its cruel conditions: ‘I have a fire inside’
Mildred Danis-Taylor dropped everything to advocate for the release of her husband, Rodney Taylor. A brutal year of legal and health challenges led her to Capitol Hill
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Today in Fun With Chronic Illness My kid's GP, the guy who told them to make a new appointment at the last appointment because he couldn't deal with all their issues at once, greeted us with "what do you want now because I'm getting tired?" #NEISVOID #CHRONICILLNESS
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Oh. My. Gawd!!!!
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Renee Good should still be alive today.
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Wow!!! That's a tiny, tiny place
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
1. Yesterday, the NYT dropped a bombshell: Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been aggressively lobbying Trump not to end the fighting and pushing him to launch a ground operation. Why would Trump listen? Follow the money.
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UPDATE: After sending billions to Kushner and Trump, Saudis lobby to escalate Iran War
“I’m not going to start a war,” President Trump pledged during his November 2024 victory speech.
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
No words
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 25/03/2026
I go to Barnes and Noble with the boy on occasion and there is a whole ass shelf of Potter crap, that's what you're funding
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Alex Neve @alexneve.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
A critical moment for human rights accountability internationally is when a country's record of compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is reviewed by the independent experts on the UN Human Rights Committee. It comes around about once per decade. 1/10
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 23/03/2026
Worth watching: New COVID variant with immune escape potential confirmed in US, 22 other countries www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-cov… @cidrap.bsky.social ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
There wasn’t a single Democratic elected official who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death. Not one. Donald Trump is openly celebrating Robert Mueller’s death and no Republicans are condemning him. Both sides are not the same.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
ICE must not be allowed in Toronto. They’ve kidnapped Canadians. They’re currently holding a 7 year old autistic Canadian girl in one of the camps. Boycott all World Cup games happening in the US, and demand ICE stay out of Canada.
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Olivia Chow wants to ban ICE agents during FIFA World Cup in Toronto
Canada is expected to draw one million visitors including athletes, coaches, officials, volunteers and fans.
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This week, I made real progres on 3 issues related to access to care and support for my chronically ill daughter ***looks around with anticipation for trophies ***
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
What's terrifying about the precedent about this case is that Depp was a public figure. It's much harder for famous people to win defamation cases than it is for private figures to do the same.
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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Shout out to all the guys with charts who told me there was no way we were undercounting while I watched nursing homes and hospitals refuse to test and send my friends’ elderly relatives home to die of “respiratory illness” to keep their official numbers down.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 18/03/2026
a genocidal racist when they have to pay an extra $1/gallon at the pump:
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I know it might be hard to believe, but this beat is, indeed, technotronic
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Why is it that everyone I know has had some scammer steal or almost steal money from their credit card or bank account, but if I open Zoom on my phone, I get 100 "new device" login warnings?
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Wake up, have coffee Open Bluesky Weep at the cruelty, racism, & murderousness of the MAGA/MAHA regime Close Bluesky
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
COVID-19 vaccines are widely regarded as the most scrutinized medical products in human history, based on the scale, speed, transparency, and intensity of their evaluation.
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 13/03/2026
Seriously I'm so tired of this passive voice framing, as though the hospital bed crunch and the dearth of home care and primary care resources were some sort of natural disaster. The people we elected made this choice. Over and over again. For decades.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them. Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/03/2026
Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are theonion.com/trump-mitch-mcconnell-…
Trump, Mitch McConnell Clash In Oval Office Over Where They Are
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Alison Palkhivala @alisonpalk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
How many kids have to die before these idiots will admit they're wrong?
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.
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Boy, 7, dies of brain condition caused by world’s most contagious disease — years after he had it as a baby
Even those who make a full recovery from the initial infection face a lurking threat: a deadly disease that remains latent until striking — and killing — years later.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This dead-eyed cretin is effectively illiterate, but if anyone ever pressed Donald Trump or Elon Musk like this in an interview, they would sound exactly the same
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
You know what pisses me off about the announcement by Oz and Makary, now disproven, that leucovorin could treat autism? It’s the false hope given to people with autism and those who love them. If you’ve ever had a kid with a complex condition and you’re desperate for help, you are vulnerable.
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