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At least six major hospitals have agreed to refuse gender-affirming hormones and surgery for transgender young people and agreed to make payments to the federal government, according to deals with the Department of Justice. The most recent agreements came last week. Most of the hospitals had already stopped offering the treatments because of state bans or previous pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration. (Mulvihill, 9/22)

A Denver judge Tuesday night sided with Children’s Hospital Colorado after attorneys for young transgender patients had sought to hold the hospital in contempt of court. (Ingold, 9/22)

Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday rejected a request for the Supreme Court to get involved in the case of a surrogate enmeshed in a multistate custody battle with California parents who at one point asked her to abort the fetus because of a heart defect. McKenna West gave birth to the couple’s baby in Texas last month and argued in court there that California denied her due process when it awarded custody of the child, whom she named Gabriel, to his genetic parents. (Gregorian, 9/22)

One of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s most reliable allies, abortion rights advocacy groups, are issuing a rare rebuke of the governor after he vetoed a bill that would have extended California’s abortion shield laws and expanded legal protections for gender-affirming care. Assembly Bill 2164 by Assembly Member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, D-Orinda, aimed to codify the state’s landmark protections for medical professionals providing abortion health care to out-of-state patients. (Palmer, 9/22)

The madness unfolded in a familiar pattern: Ellen FitzGerald would wake in the dead of night to nurse her baby for about a half hour, then hand him off to Dad to rock another half hour. Carefully, ever so gently, Dad would lay little Rowan back in his bassinet. Instantly, Rowan’s body would stiffen, his mouth splitting open in a roar that restarted the rocking process. (Carrazana, 9/22)

Children exposed to rare infections in the womb may face a higher risk of autism and intellectual disability, according to a major new study. Researchers from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet found that babies born with congenital TORCH infections were about three times more likely to later be diagnosed with autism compared with children who were not infected. (Gray, 9/23)

Hospitalizations complicated by acute kidney injury (AKI) surged among patients in pediatric units or children's hospitals over the past 25 years, a large retrospective study indicated. (Monaco, 9/22)

Scientists are developing imaging techniques and blood tests that one day may enable doctors to identify the disease definitively in living patients. (Jacobs, 9/22)

New research is shedding light on suicide prevention strategies, highlighting that even the smallest joys can help during crisis. Professor Philip Resnik, of the University of Maryland's Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, said their research started with a public Reddit post. A user had asked "formerly suicidal" people to share what kept them alive and helped them through dark times, and thousands of people responded. (Brand, 9/22)

A prolonged job search doesn’t just sap job seekers of time, money and energy — for many, the hunt takes a devastating toll on their mental health. Although unemployment rates in the United States have been historically low, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that more than a quarter of jobless people qualify as “long-term unemployed,” meaning they have been hunting for 27 weeks or more. (Carpenter, 9/22)

David George Gordon, a science writer who elevated the culinary profile of insects with “The Eat-a-Bug Cookbook,” a guide to deep-frying tarantulas and sautéing crickets, and with boisterous, squirm-inducing cooking demonstrations on late-night television, died on Aug. 4 in Tacoma, Wash. He was 76. His death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of a fall, his daughter Julia Mullen Gordon said. (Rosenwald, 9/21)