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

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

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

Medical and public concern about a controversial UK trial of puberty blockers is on the rise, as are efforts to derail it. The clinical Pathways trial is due to begin recruiting children and ...

You smell terrible, hair starts growing in weird places and red sores break out across your face. No, you’re not turning into ...

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

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

When author Naama Bloom watched her hilarious “Camp Gyno” video, about a tween who is the first girl at her summer camp to get a period, go viral in 2013, she knew she was on to something. She ...

Jennifer Benton’s daughter was just 5 years old when her kindergarten teacher pointed out something unusual: the young girl was developing breasts. It was 2019 and the little girl loved playing with ...