NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Girls in the U.S. may be continuing to hit puberty at earlier ages, according to new research. The findings suggest earlier development than what was reported in a 1997 ...

Research has shown that adults instinctively think of men when asked to think of a person -- they describe the most 'typical' person they can imagine as male and assume storybook characters without a ...

This study was conducted in two groups of girls with PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) categorized as slim (group N) and overweight-to-obese (group Ov/Ob). The study's primary outcome was to assess the ...

Exposure to environmental chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) may play a role in recent trends of earlier puberty. In a longitudinal cohort of San Francisco Bay Area girls aged ...