About half of Americans older than 50 have varicose veins — veins that are swollen and often can be seen bulging beneath the skin. They often are colored dark purple or blue and found most often on ...

When the veins in the legs function properly, they carry blood to your heart. But when they start to malfunction, they may carry blood in the opposite direction, causing it to pool in your legs and ...

If you have varicose veins, you already may have been scheduled for sclerotherapy treatment to remove your varicose veins. But maybe you still have some questions about the sclerotherapy procedure and ...

Varicose veins can affect people at any age, so it’s important to know what to look for and when to seek treatment. It’s not unusual for people, especially women, to begin seeing varicose veins on ...

Varicose veins can be potentially dangerous to health, causing ulcers, clots. May 7, 2012— -- Brett Peaks, a former college baseball player and lawyer, began to notice that his legs were "tired ...

As a curious child, you might remember staring at an older relative's thick stockings at the blue, gnarled veins lying under the skin like bumpy snakes. Known as varicose veins, these blood vessels, ...

Those bulging, twisted blood vessels snaking down your legs aren’t just a cosmetic concern. For millions of Americans, varicose veins represent a silent health crisis that’s far more serious than most ...

If you have avoided shorts or skirts for the last few years because of the unsightly veins in your legs, you are not alone. More than 25 million Americans suffer from varicose veins, which are gnarled ...

Varicose veins—visible, swollen blood vessels underneath your skin, usually in your legs—can happen when blood that usually flows toward your heart backs up and pools in a vein. Varicose veins are not ...

that could change the way doctors treat some patients with varicose veins. It's called Venaseal and it uses an adhesive to close the veins. Varicose veins are not veins that carry blood to and from ...