Connecticut is expanding access to birth control. Pharmacists are now allowed to prescribe contraception and students can buy it on college campuses.

Like a poison pen, dying cells prick their neighbors with a lethal message. This may worsen sepsis, Vijay Rathinam and colleagues in the UConn School of Medicine report in the Jan. 23 issue of Cell.

Dr. Linda Barry is a professor in the Department of Surgery and the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UConn School of Medicine and serves as associate director of the UConn Health ...