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 ...

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

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 ...

Tanner stages are a tool used by healthcare providers to evaluate development in puberty. They detail five specific stages of ...

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 ...

Research reveals that girls are starting puberty earlier than in past decades, a trend researchers find alarming due to its long-term health implications. A study published in JAMA Network analyzed ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania saw a meteoric rise in the number of adolescents receiving puberty blockers through an insurance billing code ...

Doctors for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health admitted that puberty blockers can cause irreversible damage to children, according to newly published footage, despite the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Serum levels of sex steroids and bone metabolism markers align with skeletal development in boys during puberty, ...