Randy Luckham 🇨🇦
@horsepharmer.bsky.social
🇨🇦 retired pharmacist
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Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.
January 6, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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Best ever thread. Enjoy. Thanks for sharing Tom.
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 31, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Best ever thread. Enjoy. Thanks for sharing Tom.
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What’s amazing about this story is that they *reversed* it. It’s not just a treatment that can stave it off or delay it. It *cures* Alzheimer’s. I know lots of research initially seems hopeful in mice and then doesn’t go anywhere, but this could be momentous.
I cried.
I cried.
Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...
Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say
A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.
futurism.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
What’s amazing about this story is that they *reversed* it. It’s not just a treatment that can stave it off or delay it. It *cures* Alzheimer’s. I know lots of research initially seems hopeful in mice and then doesn’t go anywhere, but this could be momentous.
I cried.
I cried.
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"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” - Carrie Fisher
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” - Carrie Fisher
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The ten-year study explored many treatments for seasonal depression, including popping bubble wrap and peeling dried glue from one’s hands, but nothing came close to the impact of wrapping paper scissor glides – which raised serotonin levels by over 3000%.
www.thebeaverton.com/2022/12/stud...
www.thebeaverton.com/2022/12/stud...
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The ten-year study explored many treatments for seasonal depression, including popping bubble wrap and peeling dried glue from one’s hands, but nothing came close to the impact of wrapping paper scissor glides – which raised serotonin levels by over 3000%.
www.thebeaverton.com/2022/12/stud...
www.thebeaverton.com/2022/12/stud...
and he stood up to Archie Bunker
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
and he stood up to Archie Bunker
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I'm seeing a lot of discussion of this study, and so far everything I have seen goes well beyond what the data of this study allow us to conclude. Let's look at this together.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection
As of September 15, 2024, the COVID-19 pandemic had resulted in more than 776 million
confirmed cases and seven million deaths worldwide [1]. While most patients recovered
from the acute phase of COVI...
www.ijidonline.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm seeing a lot of discussion of this study, and so far everything I have seen goes well beyond what the data of this study allow us to conclude. Let's look at this together.
A thread 🧵
A thread 🧵
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Alright, time for me to get started (apologies for the delay).
Here is the link to the livestream:
www.youtube.com/live/kUgXRUp...
Here is the latest agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
Here are the slides (not all are posted yet):
www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...
Here is the link to the livestream:
www.youtube.com/live/kUgXRUp...
Here is the latest agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
Here are the slides (not all are posted yet):
www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - December 5, 2025 - Day 2 of 2
YouTube video by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Alright, time for me to get started (apologies for the delay).
Here is the link to the livestream:
www.youtube.com/live/kUgXRUp...
Here is the latest agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
Here are the slides (not all are posted yet):
www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...
Here is the link to the livestream:
www.youtube.com/live/kUgXRUp...
Here is the latest agenda:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
Here are the slides (not all are posted yet):
www.cdc.gov/acip/meeting...
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#medsky #pedsky #idsky #immunosky #episky
I collaborated with exceptionally talented people in infectious diseases to write this Special Article about aluminum salts in childhood vaccines.
We review the evidence base for key safety concerns and offer guidance for communication with caregivers.
I collaborated with exceptionally talented people in infectious diseases to write this Special Article about aluminum salts in childhood vaccines.
We review the evidence base for key safety concerns and offer guidance for communication with caregivers.
The Role and Safety of Aluminum Adjuvants in Childhood Vaccines
Aluminum salts have been used as adjuvants in vaccines for nearly a century, enhancing the immune response to purified antigens and ensuring durable protection against serious infectious diseases. Des...
publications.aap.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
#medsky #pedsky #idsky #immunosky #episky
I collaborated with exceptionally talented people in infectious diseases to write this Special Article about aluminum salts in childhood vaccines.
We review the evidence base for key safety concerns and offer guidance for communication with caregivers.
I collaborated with exceptionally talented people in infectious diseases to write this Special Article about aluminum salts in childhood vaccines.
We review the evidence base for key safety concerns and offer guidance for communication with caregivers.
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Randy Rainbow absolutely clowning RFK Jr. is both peak comedy and tragedy. A neoclassical American Tragedy? 🇺🇸🎭
Here’s to living in a timeline so unhinged we need a musical parody (though it’s not much of a stretch) to make sense of it! For now we laugh, we’ll save the panic for a little later 😅
Here’s to living in a timeline so unhinged we need a musical parody (though it’s not much of a stretch) to make sense of it! For now we laugh, we’ll save the panic for a little later 😅
RFK! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
YouTube video by Randy Rainbow
m.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Randy Rainbow absolutely clowning RFK Jr. is both peak comedy and tragedy. A neoclassical American Tragedy? 🇺🇸🎭
Here’s to living in a timeline so unhinged we need a musical parody (though it’s not much of a stretch) to make sense of it! For now we laugh, we’ll save the panic for a little later 😅
Here’s to living in a timeline so unhinged we need a musical parody (though it’s not much of a stretch) to make sense of it! For now we laugh, we’ll save the panic for a little later 😅
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1 in 5 patients found ERRORS when given access to their medical charts
Many were serious.
Yet most Ontarians lack access
It’s time to up our game.
Many were serious.
Yet most Ontarians lack access
It’s time to up our game.
The price Ontarians’ pay for the lack of access to their medical records www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @thestar.com
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More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
1 in 5 patients found ERRORS when given access to their medical charts
Many were serious.
Yet most Ontarians lack access
It’s time to up our game.
Many were serious.
Yet most Ontarians lack access
It’s time to up our game.
Centre Bell in Montreal.
A museum
i'd mix the Stone Age and Iron Age artifacts when no one was looking and cause absolute chaos
i'd mix the Stone Age and Iron Age artifacts when no one was looking and cause absolute chaos
just saw this on reddit and the idea FASCINATES me so tell me…where would you haunt? 👀
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Centre Bell in Montreal.
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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
October 16, 2025 at 1:36 AM
AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.
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Excellent, when can it come here?
October 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Excellent, when can it come here?
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Laughter is medicine. G’night all
October 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Laughter is medicine. G’night all
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I have this concern as well. Honestly at this point I’m defaulting to not trusting prescribing information issued after 2024 until I can independently verify it.
if FDA labels start getting changed based on low-quality evidence like this, I legitimately think the entire process of how the pharmacy profession functions grinds to a halt
like we all have the training to critically evaluate this shit but we don’t have the TIME!
like we all have the training to critically evaluate this shit but we don’t have the TIME!
This is bonkers. FDA is going to change leucovorin's label based on a lit review with data on 40 patients w/ cerebral folate deficiency and comparisons to "known natural history."
www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f...
www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/f...
September 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I have this concern as well. Honestly at this point I’m defaulting to not trusting prescribing information issued after 2024 until I can independently verify it.
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As a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, here are a list of exposures with conclusive evidence for adverse fetal & childhood outcomes:
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)
September 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
As a Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, here are a list of exposures with conclusive evidence for adverse fetal & childhood outcomes:
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)
Alcohol
Tobacco
Cannabis
Maternal suicide
Maternal homicide
Viruses (CMV, influenza, COVID, HIV, HepB&C)
Bacteria (syphilis, listeria)
Parasites (toxo)
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The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly
Trump: FDA will be updating label of existing drug
September 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly
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U.S. officials are asking veterinarians to be prepared to detect and report a catastrophic pest, the New World screwworm fly.
Veterinarians asked to be alert for screwworm infestations
U.S. braces for expected return of flesh-eating parasite
news.vin.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
U.S. officials are asking veterinarians to be prepared to detect and report a catastrophic pest, the New World screwworm fly.
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Insurers steer millions of Canadians to new pharmacies: Survey https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/news/life-insurance/insurers-steer-millions-of-canadians-to-new-pharmacies-survey-548758.aspx
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
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September 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Insurers steer millions of Canadians to new pharmacies: Survey https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/news/life-insurance/insurers-steer-millions-of-canadians-to-new-pharmacies-survey-548758.aspx
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
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September 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM