puberty

Florida's Department of Health (DOH) has rebuked the guidance issued by the Biden administration on gender dysphoria treatment for children and adolescents, releasing its own guidelines instead.  The Sunshine State said on Thursday that…

Mei's mother Ming assumes this reluctance to leave the bathroom means her 13-year-old daughter has just gotten her first period."Did the ... did the red peony bloom?" her mom asks through the door.Ming soon storms in with ibuprofen,…

New research from the University of California, Irvine reveals that sex differences in learning and memory mechanisms are triggered by biological events occurring during puberty. Findings show prepubescent female rodents have much better…

Men who smoked before hitting puberty are more likely to have fat granddaughters or even great-granddaughters, a study suggests.University of Bristol researchers previously linked fathers who started smoking at a young age with having…

A transgender clinic for children in Dallas, Texas has been closed down after activists organized demonstrations against hospital board members and accused the program of committing child abuse.  A group called Save Texas Kids had held…

A study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has implicated several genes involved in a variety of bodily functions associated with the hypothalamus, a notoriously difficult-to-study region of the brain. The…