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PCOS Got A New Name, One Experts Hope Will Change How Women Receive Care

Javier Zayas Photography/Moment/Getty ImagesChances are you know someone with polycysitc ovary syndrome, or PCOS — it affects roughly 10% to 13% of women of reproductive age (or anyone with ovaries), according to the World Health Organization, though many who suffer with it go undiagnosed. But a change to the condition’s name, published yesterday in The Lancet, aims to change that. Thanks to the work of numerous international women’s health organizations and patient advocacy groups, PCOS will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS.A consortium of 56 academic, clinica...