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PCOS Has Been Renamed: Everything to Know About the New Name PMOS

After 14 years of research, the condition long known as PCOS has been officially renamed — a change researchers say will reshape diagnosis, care and awareness for the roughly 170 million women affected worldwide. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, the name millions of patients have learned to live with, is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, or PMOS. The shift reflects what doctors say the condition actually is: a complex, multisystem hormonal and metabolic disorder, not a disease defined by ovarian cysts. The rename was led by professor Helena Teede, director of Monash University’s Monash C...