‘Unprecedented’ global effort gives new name to polycystic ovary syndrome – and new hope to millions of women

Decades-long campaign powered by patient perspectives results in switch from PCOS - a name that caused confusion and undue suffering - to PMOS

What is PCOS, what are the symptoms and treatment, and why is it being renamed PMOS?
I still want to scream': the loneliness and confusion of living with PMOS

After more than a decade of global consultation, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) - a condition that affects one in eight women - has been renamed.

The hormonal disorder, estimated to impact 170 million women worldwide, will now be known as polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS).