If you’ve ever felt like your body is changing again in adulthood, you’re not imagining things. Many women report experiencing shifts in their skin, mood, weight or hormones well beyond their teenage ...

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Around the time of their first period, many young people learn the basic mechanics of managing their periods, such as how to put on a pad or tampon and that it happens once a mont ...

A new study reports associations between specific hormones, higher BMI, and stress with earlier puberty in girls, a trend with medical and psychosocial consequences. Published in the Journal of ...

Girls around the world are entering puberty earlier than in previous generations. Research shows that girls today start puberty more than a year earlier on average than girls born in the ending of ...

A recent article in Nature, “Girls are starting puberty younger—why, and what are the risks?”, highlights a trend that has increasingly drawn the attention of scientists and clinicians: Girls are ...

Lynchburg, VA - It's the "awkward phase" we all remember, but for many young girls, puberty is happening sooner than expected. In fact, it's hitting girls a year sooner than it did ten years ago. Does ...

Girls given antibiotics during their first year of life, especially in the first three months, are more likely to enter puberty at an earlier age, according to research presented at the first Joint ...

Girls who go through puberty early may tower over their second-grade classmates but they wind up becoming short adults—menarche halts long-bone growth. And because hormones do not act in isolation, ...

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