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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). The name change was published in the Lancet and announced at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague on Tuesday, after 14 years of collaboration between international societies and patient groups across six continents. The renaming was spearheaded by the endocrinologist Prof Helena Teede, the director of Melbourne’s Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation. For too long, experts including Teede say, the misleading nature of the term “polycystic” in PCOS contributed to delayed diagnosis and inadequate medical care. Announcing the new name at the European Congress of Endocrinology in Prague on Tuesday, Teede said the term PCOS didn’t capture the “multi-system burden that people with this condition have suffered”, and that it “directs attention to only one organ”. PMOS is hoped to better reflect the condition’s complex nature – which affects not only the reproductive system in people assigned female at birth but also the metabolism and the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. ‘A much broader condition’ The first thing Maddy Mavrikis was told by her GP when she was diagnosed with PCOS at 15 was that she would probably never have children. She would later learn that was not true. [...]

Then she apologized (for the clinician), and I was all "in your defense, my first appointment with you was, like, two steps shy of a mental health intervention, and you've saved my life like twice since then", but also: GLAD IT'S OFFICIAL.

Its not an isekai. It happens in our reality, but in Dante's dream.

"all religious text is fantasy" is incorrect for several reasons. However the reasons are interesting and they highlight one of my favorite things about religious studies; the emic vs etic divide. Basically, how the authors conceived of their work at the time, and how we conceive of it now.

Christian fiction did exist. One of my favorite stories in the Decameron is about a terrible man becoming a saint. But our Modern notions of "fantasy literature" didn't exist. For Dante's time, stories about fairies and monsters were much closer to folklore.

The Divine Comedy was part of a genre that doesn't really exist anymore; it is a Visio. This is a genre of dream or visionary literature you see all over the medieval era. It has its own conventions and tropes. I'm no expert on medieval literature, but I can say with confidence it doesn't fit into modern notions of fantasy.