All posts tagged "Allergology"

PHILADELPHIA — Thomas Jefferson University President Mark Tykocinski, who came under fire less than three months ago for liking controversial tweets about COVID-19 vaccines and gender reassignment surgery for children on his official presidential Twitter account, resigned from his leadership position this week after only a year in the job, the school announced. In an email to the university community Thursday, Joseph G. Cacchione, Jefferson’s CEO, said that Tykocinski is exiting the leadership role “to focus on his research and clinical translation efforts” but would remain a full professor. H......

Conservative broadcaster Megyn Kelly worked blue while talking about retiring National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Anthony Fauci on her Wednesday podcast. The former Fox News star began her “Megyn Kelly Show” tirade by tearing into the nation’s foremost authority on immunology she blames for lockdowns meant to control the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed more than 1 million people in the U.S. and more than 6 million worldwide since 2020. She started by playing video of the 81-year-old immunologist suggesting his messaging during the pandemic may have appealed to Am......

A West Virginia man who threatened Dr. Anthony Fauci and his family was sentenced to more than three years in prison. Thomas Patrick Connally Jr., 57, will serve 37 months in a federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for encrypted emails sent to the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Justice Department said. Connally confessed in a plea agreement that he was responsible for sending unsolicited emails to Fauci for a nearly seven-month period that ended in late July 2021. One of those messages said that along with his family, Fauci, 81, w......

PHILADELPHIA – He found masses of pollen as thick as “oatmeal,” and once discovered that grains from palm trees had ridden the winds for hundreds of miles to reach his front porch. For 17 years, Timothy Craig intercepted the airborne gametes of trees, grasses, and weeds with a whirling trap, assiduously examined the captives with a microscope, and posted his inferred daily pollen counts for the benefit of science and the allergy-tormented. Not many people are going through that much trouble these days. “It’s very labor-intensive and time-intensive,” said Craig, a professor of medicine and pedi......

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A day after injection with the new COVID-19 vaccine, Tricia Potocki feels one major side effect: relief. A respiratory therapist at John Muir Health at high risk of viral exposure, she decorated her Danville house for the holidays after returning home Wednesday from receiving her shot. On Thursday, she worked out on her elliptical trainer. “I feel perfectly normal,” said Potocki, who for months has worried about accidentally infecting her husband, who is older and medically vulnerable. “I see the end of this long, dark tunnel. I’m so happy.” As the first vaccine from Pfizer ......