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The timing of puberty can influence a child’s bone strength throughout adolescence and into early adulthood.
Close to 4 million teenage girls are subjected to breast ironing worldwide. This harmful cultural practice, which is most prevalent in West and Central Africa, needs to stop.
What we thought we knew about male development since the 1950s has now been turned on its head.
The Conversation has access to top academic experts, and we want them to use their knowledge to answer questions from teenagers.
The signs might be there. But parents and clinicians will still wonder if there’s some foolproof way to determine whether their children are actually trans. There isn’t one – and that’s okay.
The panic about British children reaching puberty younger is unwarranted. Medieval skeletons provide a different answer.
More and more girls are starting puberty early – but it’s a mistake to see this reality as a crisis.
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In this episode of The Anthill podcast, we bring you stories on helicopter parenting, early puberty, and what it's like to grow up as a Muslim in Britain.
A new book on puberty has explored why we find it so difficult to talk about puberty, and why we need to start talking about it earlier.
Shape-shifting bodies. Cracking voices. Hairs sprouting in new places. Why do some children enter puberty early?
Girls who have their first period at a young age are more likely to experience poorer health as a adult, including an elevated risk of diabetes during pregnancy.
In developing countries, many girls feel unprepared when they go through puberty. And research indicates that low-income girls in the US may feel the same way.
Until now, the processes that lead some girls to start developing before others have been poorly understood.
Study finds that gene linked to risk-taking is associated with losing your virginity early.
Late maturing girls tend to be privileged in ballet training. This doesn’t have to be the case.
There is lot on the minds of teens other than school, grades and friends. Research shows being asked “prying” questions could make a real difference to their mental health.
The female sex hormone oestrogen can be produced and released from the brain as well as the ovaries, according to a study. The research, recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that the…
Puberty has long been recognised as a transition point in which many emotional and behavioural problems emerge. These include depression and anxiety, substance use and abuse, self-harm and eating disorders…
Boys are entering puberty earlier than previously thought, according to research from the United States recently published in the journal Pediatrics. The largest study of its type, enrolling 4,131 healthy…
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