For too long, women's anxiety, discomfort, and downright pain during routine gyn visits has been ignored or dismissed. That's (finally!) starting to change, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. My latest for @opinion.bsky.social:

Getting an IUD Doesn’t Need to Be Excruciating

Doctors could do more to mitigate the severe pain some women experience from insertion of the birth control devices.

Call me Ishmael. In banking, some whales become very costly to chase down>> @opinion.bsky.socialwww.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Is Elon Musk the Bankers’ Moby Dick? Not Yet

His $44 billion buyout of Twitter has been painful for lenders — but it’s not the end of the story.

Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini has built a model to figure out which US Zip codes are at climate risk. Here's a free model for you: ALL OF THEM ARE AT RISK Gift link to my @opinion.bsky.socialwww.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If You Didn’t Get an Extreme-Weather Alert, You’re Alone

A whopping 99% of the country has been subject to at least one from the National Weather Service since May. Just assume you’re at climate risk.

The White House announced on Wednesday that President Joe Biden had tested positive for Covid, making him the most prominent example of this summer’s mini-surge, writes @lisamjarvis.bsky.social. Free to read 🔓

Biden Has Covid and the Summer Surge Is Officially Here

A wave of infections has become a summer tradition. But thanks to vaccines and previous exposure, hospitalizations aren’t rising in lockstep.

The summer surge is officially here. Right now, swaths of the US wastewater map are brightly lit with high or very high levels of Covid detected in the sewage ⬇

It's a barbarian bailout! #MorganStanley#GoldmanSachswww.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The summer Covid wave is back 😷 My latest for @opinion.bsky.social (no paywall on this one):

Biden Has Covid and the Summer Surge Is Officially Here

A wave of infections has become a summer tradition. But thanks to vaccines and previous exposure, hospitalizations aren’t rising in lockstep.

wrote for @opinion.bsky.socialwww.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

My Fellow Scientists Present Research Wrong

The findings are meant to educate everyone, but the average reader has no idea how to interpret the complex jargon.

Data on Gilead's HIV capsid inhibitor lenacapavir are truly extraordinary. Zero (!!!) infections among the women who received this potential new form of PrEP. Now all hands on deck are needed to map out its eventual rollout. My latest (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Game-Changing HIV Shot Can’t Get to High-Risk Groups Fast Enough

Lenacapavir proved it's possible to prevent 100% of infections in women. Access and affordability are the next big hurdles.

NEW COLUMN: Trump spent his presidency and the years since going well out of his way to undermine the rule of law. And the law finally caught up to him, writes @timobrien.bsky.social

Trump Fought the Law and the Law Finally Won

The former president faced the reckoning he has long deserved, but the more critical verdict will come on Election Day.