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”.

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

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 ...

At the age of 9, years before her friends—and worse, before her older sister—Emma started developing breasts. Within months, she got her period. She was so ashamed she didn’t tell her parents or any ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...