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

A new set of resources on puberty and sexual development for young people who have a learning disability and their ...

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

Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small. You can listen to episodes here. (CNN) — Puberty: It’s one of ...

Reproductive hormones that develop during puberty are not responsible for changes in social behavior that occur during adolescence, according to the results of a newly published study by a University ...

The study shows how longer diabetes duration, larger waistlines, and lower blood sugar levels are linked to development of puberty in girls and boys. Research has discovered earlier puberty onset in ...

Puberty in both girls and boys with type 1 diabetes has shifted forward over the last two decades, according to research presented at the 61st Annual European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology ...

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 ...