Children from disadvantaged households are more likely to hit puberty early and could face poorer health later in life as a result, an Australian study has shown. Researchers from the Murdoch Children ...

Puberty is the time when children's bodies start to make hormones that lead to physical changes and signs of maturation. It prepares the body for reproduction. It is also when significant growth ...

A new Danish study suggests that early puberty may increase the risk of depression in both girls and boys.

All animals start out as a single-celled organism and then start growing. At some point, of course, they need to stop getting bigger, but the process by which this happens is poorly understood. New ...

What’s happening to little girls? asked Gary Liberson in HuffingtonPost.com. Evidence has been mounting for years that girls in the U.S. are reaching puberty at younger and younger ages, but a new ...

"How do you know if you’re normal?" is the question boys ask most frequently of puberty educator Dr. Robert Lehmann. He and Julie Metzger model for parents how to answer questions kids have about ...

Research on fruit flies has implications for this poorly understood process in humans. All animals start out as a single-celled organism and then start growing. At some point, of course, they need to ...