PCOS’s new name is PMOS, a small letter change that required a big scientific process

PCOS is dead. Long live PMOS. 

Revealed Tuesday, the one-letter change in nomenclature for a common metabolic condition in women may seem unremarkable, but it follows more than a decade of vigorous debate over the need for a name that more precisely and completely describes what until now was known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). 

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