More girls are hitting puberty at eight or earlier. Researchers are exploring the causes, the consequences and what should be done.

JK Rowling has demanded that the Government scrap an NHS puberty blocker trial that she branded an “experiment on children”.

Researchers have shown that gonadotrophs, cells in the pituitary gland with a key role in puberty and reproduction, come from two different populations, with the majority produced after birth rather ...

A new study points to a possible factor in the trend of children reaching puberty at younger ages in recent decades. The first-of-its-kind research found that a common chemical, musk ambrette, used to ...

Children as young as ten are being asked to rate their private body parts as part of a controversial trial over the use of ...