FARGO - The perils of puberty start with the pituitary. The brain makes a hormone that causes the pituitary gland to release two more hormones, which then produce the sex hormones that initiate ...

Zaria was just 9 years old when a nurse practitioner delivered news that rocked her world: The young girl was already showing signs of puberty development, and she was on track to get her period ...

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Across the United States, thousands of parents have consented to having their children’s puberty stopped with a class of drugs called gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists. Known colloquially as ...

Seven-year-old Oluchi Okechukwu had always believed that blood on her body could only mean she had fallen or scraped her knee. However, on a quiet day, she noticed a dark red stain spreading across ...

Worried about early puberty in your child? Child nutritionist Sanchita Daswani explains that milk isn't the sole culprit.