'The name was inaccurate': PCOS gets a new name after years-long effort

A woman wearing a maroon tank top and blue sweater and jeans with long dark hair sits on a hospital bed with a nurse with dark curly hair in blue scrubs talking to her.

A hormonal disorder that affects 1 in 8 women just got a new name.

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) will now be called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS). Experts say that the new name better reflects the nature of the disease.