It is among the most delicate and controversial challenges in modern medicine - how to determine whether the benefits of puberty blockers (or drugs that delay puberty) outweigh the potential harms.

Editor’s note: The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small. You can listen to episodes here. (CNN) — Puberty: It’s one of ...

The physical changes during and around puberty can cause stressful and unpleasant emotions for children who don’t identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. Puberty blockers, or pubertal ...

Acne, awkwardness, body odor—puberty can be a tough time. But things get even more complicated when puberty starts at an exceptionally young age, and today many girls are beginning the process younger ...

If the coming-of-age changes you notice in your child make you wonder if the kid you still consider your “baby” is literally growing up too fast, it’s probably nothing to worry about. “I think a lot ...

Adolescence can be a uniquely distressing time for young transgender people, who often experience gender dysphoria: a discrepancy between the sex they were assigned at birth and the gender that ...

Associate Professor and Visiting Academic, Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Shape-shifting bodies. Cracking voices. Hairs sprouting in new places. Puberty marks a ...

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Grown-ups tend to recall their adolescence as a highlight reel (or maybe, in some cases, it’s a lowlight reel): the first leg or face shave, the first kiss, the first bra, the first ejaculation or ...

Ayesha Rascoe talks to pediatrician Adiaha Spinks-Franklin, of Texas Children's Hospital, about the risks of early onset puberty and its complicated relationship with COVID-19. Puberty can be scary ...

Fiona Mensah receives funding from Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship 1037449 and previously Population Health Capacity Building Grant 436914.

Recent conservative legislation has targeted a class of drugs used to treat transgender adolescents. But what do these drugs actually do? By Lena Wilson When Sebastian Liafsha came out as transgender ...