Zaria was just 9 years old when a nurse practitioner delivered news that rocked her world: The young girl was already showing signs of puberty development, and she was on track to get her period ...

There is a misconception that breasts reach their forever state at the end of puberty. In reality, that’s only the beginning of their ever-changing appearance and feel. As Dr. Cara Natterson and ...

The average age of the onset of puberty has been dropping in the last century—with some girls starting to develop breasts as early as age six or seven. These shifts in the reproductive development ...

Puberty isn’t waiting for the teenage years anymore. Experts explain why girls are growing up faster than before ...