More girls are hitting puberty at eight or earlier. Researchers are exploring the causes, the consequences and what should be ...

Precocious puberty is when signs of sexual maturity occur earlier than age 8 in a girl and age 9 in a boy. (Photo: Getty Images) Every child goes through puberty, but not everyone experiences it at ...

Medical and public concern about a controversial UK trial of puberty blockers is on the rise, as are efforts to derail it.

What was studied: Whether kids who eat certain sweeteners (like aspartame, sucralose, glycyrrhizin, and added sugar) may face a higher risk of early puberty — especially when they carry genes that ...

A sweeping review of 12 international cohort studies shows that heavier boys, especially those carrying excess weight after age six, reach key puberty milestones sooner, reshaping how parents and ...

PUBERTY blockers may not even be safe for animals so the NHS should call off its experiment on teenagers who think they are ...

It is unconscionable to coerce young people into participating and, for half of the cohort, delay the care they’ve been ...

Legal advocacy group ADF International has called for an end to “reckless experimentation on children” by the NHS, which has ...

JK Rowling has demanded that the Government scrap an NHS puberty blocker trial that she branded an “experiment on children”.

The New Zealand government also announced a ban on prescribing puberty blockers to people not already receiving them ...

In the first-ever genome-scale analysis of the puberty process in humans, researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) outline distinct and critical changes to ...

Discover puberphonia, a voice condition where pitch remains high post-puberty, and explore its causes, assessment, and ...