Few topics provoke as much concern as the perception that puberty is beginning earlier than ever. While synthetic ...

By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD A longitudinal study shows that puberty may reprogram children’s epigenetic profiles in ways that ...

Adolescence and puberty are not the same. Adolescence is that 10- to 12-year period of social and psychological growth that transforms the dependent child (beginning in late elementary or early middle ...

Seven-year-old Oluchi Okechukwu had always believed that blood on her body could only mean she had fallen or scraped her knee.