With operating room lights turned low, three heart surgeons watched intently as a fourth inserted a long probe into a small slit in the skin behind a patient’s left knee. A red light on the end of the ...

TARZANA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Varicose veins can be more than just unsightly, they can be very painful. Health officials say varicose veins affect 50 percent of women and 40 percent of men.

Just as ablative catheter techniques have made open ligation and stripping a historic procedure, new techniques in the removal of varicose veins are challenging traditional stab phlebectomy. In the ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- A new, minimally invasive surgical instrument to remove varicose veins has been developed by a University of California-Los Angeles researcher. Dr. Peter Lawrence, UCLA's ...

Dr. Peter Lawrence, UCLA's chief of vascular surgery, picks up size 7 crochet hooks from a fabric store — not to make sweaters or scarves but to use in a new technique he has developed to treat ...

Vein Clinic CA, which offers spider- and varicose-vein removal, Botox and other services, will hold a grand opening for its Costa Mesa store Feb. 18. The clinic opened in late 2015. Vein Clinic CA ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — By the time Teri Moreno began to consider surgery for her varicose veins, her ankle had swelled to 12 inches in circumference. She wouldn’t have believed it either. But her husband ...