A new study suggests that growing up in poverty accelerates biological development. For adolescent girls, this early onset of ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers tracked infant diets and development to see how infant feeding was associated with early puberty onset in a large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The age when girls hit puberty has been falling at an alarming rate for decades, and scientists have struggled to explain why. New ...

Sweeteners can crop up in everything from squash and fizzy drinks to desserts, sweets and even ready meals – and a new study warns they could be increasing the risk of early puberty in children. In ...

July 14 (UPI) --Sugar and artificial sweeteners might increase the risk of early puberty in children, a new study says. Sugar, aspartame (Equal), sucralose (Splenda) and glycyrrhizin (licorice root) ...

Sweetener intake, including aspartame and sucralose, was associated with an increased risk for early puberty in children, particularly in those who were genetically predisposed. Sex-specific effects ...

The World Bank drives early childhood development globally through financing, policy, and partnerships to boost health, ...

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 ...

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 ...