This week, The Lancet renamed the condition formerly known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Dr. Jan Dipasupil, medical director of Jan Medical Group, on what changed, why one in eight women in the Philippines should care, and the multisystem treatment that has always been the actual answer. On Tuesday, the world’s most respected medical journal made one of the most consequential nomenclature changes in modern endocrinology. After a four-year global consensus process involving 14

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