PCOS needs a new name, health researchers say. Here's what they're proposing instead.

A group of world health experts and medical leaders want to rename polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS. Here's what they're proposing instead and why. (Adobe Stock)

PCOS renamed PMOS in global overhaul of women’s health term

Global experts rename PCOS to PMOS to better reflect hormonal, metabolic and reproductive effects in women worldwide.

PCOS has a new name. Do you recognize these symptoms?

Polycystic ovary syndrome officially has a new name. It will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. It’s a one-letter change from PCOS to PMOS, but it’s more than a decade in the making,