Children who endured abuse or violence in early childhood are more likely to show early signs of biological aging than kids who did not experience such trauma, a new study finds. Early-childhood abuse ...

Researchers have linked the trend of earlier puberty in Black girls to elevated stress hormones.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Precocious puberty is when signs of sexual maturity occur earlier than age 8 in a girl and age 9 in a boy. (Photo: Getty Images) ...

Ten-year-olds developing adult bodies, eight-year-olds needing training bras, and seven-year-olds starting their periods – these scenarios that would have been shocking medical anomalies just a ...

The age when girls hit puberty has been falling at an alarming rate for decades, and scientists have struggled to explain why. New research suggests a compound found in a wide variety of products — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Musk ambrette, sometimes found in detergent and other scented household products, was singled out in a recent study looking at ...

Girls who enter puberty early may have a higher risk for mental health problems in adulthood than their later-developing peers, new research suggests. In a study of more than 7800 women in their 20s ...

MICHIGAN — The teen years get a bad wrap when it comes to puberty and mental health, but that cliché doesn’t tell the whole story— and ignores some warning signs you should get ahead of. “Starting ...

During the past couple of decades, the age of puberty onset in US girls has been declining. [1] Although environmental causes have been suspected, the reasons for earlier puberty have been somewhat of ...

As if being a pre-teen girl isn’t hard enough. A new study says some common soaps, shampoos and other personal care products may be putting adolescent girls at a higher risk of certain cancers and ...

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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 ...