For kids growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, there's a standard introduction to puberty at many schools: an educational play called Nightmare on Puberty Street. It's a fictional play, and in it, ...

Scientists from Monash University have uncovered a new understanding of how male puberty begins. The key to their findings lies with a protein known as SMAD3 and the rate at which it is produced.

Lead authors Marlon Goering, Ph.D., and Sylvie Mrug, Ph.D., from the Department of Psychology in the UAB College of Arts and Sciences, say two risk factors for early puberty parents can monitor are a ...

For many parents, the onset of puberty in their child can feel overwhelming. That’s especially true when the child is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum. For Tiffany Jackson of Madison Heights, it ...

BERLIN — We are only at the start of puberty, and I am already at my wits’ end. How did I manage to make my child cry again? My daughter Juli and I have gone through life together for 12 years now.

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Central precocious puberty (CPP) is a condition that causes very early puberty in children. Puberty is the process during which children mature and develop into adults. Girls typically reach puberty ...

Lisa Mundy receives funding from NHMRC and the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training. Lisa Mundy has previously received funding from Australian Rotary Health, the Invergowrie Foundation ...

A transgender activist made an argument for all children to be put on puberty blockers until they can make an informed decision on their gender. “If children can’t consent to puberty blockers which ...