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

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 ...

Teens who feel confident in managing the physical, emotional, and social changes that come with puberty report fewer symptoms ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sugar and artificial sweeteners might trigger early puberty in some kids Sugar, aspartame, sucralose and glycyrrhizin were associated with early puberty in Taiwanese children Girls and boys responded ...

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

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

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