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 ...

Puberty is the time when children's bodies start to make hormones that lead to physical changes and signs of maturation.

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

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 ...

Sugar, aspartame (Equal), sucralose (Splenda) and glycyrrhizin (licorice root) are all significantly associated with a higher risk of early puberty, particularly in genetically predisposed children, ...

In males, the testicles, scrotum, and penis grow in size during puberty. Researchers say the average size of an erect adult penis is 5.1 to 5.5 inches in length, but that is just an average, and teens ...

A new study from Aarhus University shows that children who have expressed a desire at the age of 11 to be a different gender enter puberty earlier than their peers. However, more research is required, ...

Most men stop growing by 18 years old. However, genetic and environmental factors can cause a person to either continue ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Transgender adolescents treated with gender-affirming hormone therapy early in puberty experience bone ...

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 ...