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The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled parts of the state's licensing statute unconstitutional earlier this year following a challenge by Austin attorney and academic Mary Louise Serafine. (Rocha, 6/9)

Unionized hospitalists at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend plan a one-day picket this month, an action that management calls surprising given progress toward the group's first contract. (Barkholz 6/9)

New York's Assembly has passed legislation to require that health education in schools includes mental health. A companion bill is poised for a Senate vote. It would take effect in July 2018. Lawmakers have inserted similar requirements in the law concerning health education about alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and the prevention and detection of cancers. (6/9)

State workers and their union called on the Hogan administration Thursday to hire more staff and improve training at mental health care facilities, pointing to injuries employees have suffered as a result of assaults by patients. (Dresser 6/9)

Shadowing doctors, attending lectures and working in labs at MetroHealth Medical Center will be a major part of the new "School of Science and Health" that MetroHealth is creating this summer with the Cleveland school district. (O'Donnell, 6/9)

Pinal County’s outbreak, believed to have started at an immigration-detention center in nearby Eloy, is the county's second in consecutive years. So far, it has been confined to the Eloy Detention Center. Fourteen cases had been confirmed as of Tuesday — 10 detainees and four detention-center employees. (Alltucker, 6/9)

Gun violence is increasingly seen as a public health problem -- an issue that could benefit from aggressive prevention and education campaigns. Many physicians and nurses are on board with this .... "We see them almost every day, I was just on call yesterday and I had two; one survived and one did not," said trauma surgeon Sandra Medinilla. She works at Christiana Care Health System's Christiana Hospital in Newark -- where most of the gunshot victims from Wilmington are treated. ... Medinilla and other doctors and nurses at this facility are volunteering their time for an unusual program to prevent more violence. (Scott, 6/7)

After three years of waiting, victims of notorious cancer doctor Farid Fata can start filing claims to seek reimbursement for medical costs and other expenses incurred because of the oncologist, who is serving 45 years in prison for intentionally misdiagnosing or mistreating patients. (Baldas 6/10)