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 ...

Frequent consumption of junk food may contribute to the early onset of puberty in girls, paediatricians have said. The child ...

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 ...

Girls will need to be at least 11 to enrol, and boys will have to be at least 12 to be put on puberty blockers. When the ...

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 ...

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 ...