Spider veins (also known as broken capillaries) are visible red or purple lines across the skin’s surface that are often a ...

Varicose veins are twisted, swollen veins that occur due to blood buildup. They may be blue or dark purple. Treatment is not always necessary but may involve remedies such as exercise and ...

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.

Spider veins, warts, tattoos -- they all disappear ... but the basic treatment series will eliminate 50% to 80% of the hair. "For hair removal, lasers really do work well," says Baumann.