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Alicia Wheeler, an immigration attorney in Phoenix, is pictured. A new rule from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requires attorneys to bring their own personal protective equipment to attend hearings and visit clients inside immigration detention facilities.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is turning away Arizona lawyers from immigration detention centers if they don’t comply with a new agency requirement to bring their own nitrile gloves, surgical mask or N95 respirators, and eye protection. Read more»

Lawyers and advocates who work with detainees say ICE detention centers are breeding grounds for infectious diseases, and the agency’s medical facilities have been harshly criticized by inspectors and human rights organizations.

ICE has suspended social visits to detention centers and begun screening newly arrived detainees for symptoms. But inside, detainees said, little else has changed in response to the virus. Read more»

Measles is a disease that is roaring back in the U.S. after being nearly wiped out. In a country like Guinea, where this child was photographed in 2009, it is often fatal.

Some people believe measles is a benign, childhood disease that causes a bit of a rash. But the disease is one nasty "little bag of destruction" that will thrive in naive populations — and it's back with a vengeance. Read more»

SciCheck: Sen. Rand Paul gave false and misleading statements about vaccine safety in two separate interviews, including a claim that “many” children have developed “profound mental disorders” after vaccinations. Read more»

A state lawmaker wants to require Arizona schools to post health-related information on their websites including immunization rates among students – information he says is especially important given the measles outbreak originating at Disneyland. Read more»

The Lancet has formally retracted a controversial paper published 12 years ago that purported the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine causes autism. Read more»