**Takeaways from The Times’s inside look at the C.D.C. reveal concerns that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is undermining the agency's public health safeguarding role**, according to current and former employees.

• Takeaways From The Times’s Inside Look at the C.D.C. — The New York Times Health -

Diabetes, overlooked and unchecked, is posing new risks in Africa, with a new malnutrition-linked form emerging and deaths starting to rival those from infectious diseases like malaria.

• Diabetes, Overlooked and Unchecked, Poses New Risks in Africa — The New York Times Health -

The medical field mourns the passing of two luminaries, with Nobel Prize winner J. Michael Bishop, who discovered cancer-causing genes, and gene-mapping pioneer David Botstein, whose methods enabled finding disease-causing genes, both passing away.

• J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize Winner for Cancer Research, Dies at 90 — The New York Times Health -
• David Botstein, Gene-Mapping Pioneer, Dies at 83 — The New York Times Health -