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Improving Wisely offers societies the opportunity to lead in identifying benchmarks and in working to drive peer performance closer to new standards as they are identified.

The global incidence of venous ulceration hasn’t changed despite technological advancements. It’s time for a new approach to venous ulceration.

Symptoms related to lymphedema (LE) can present anywhere in the torso, arm, leg, head and neck. For most, LE erodes quality of life and makes it difficult for patients to care for themselves.

by Kirti Kamdar, SVP of R&D, VNUS Medical Technologies, Inc. There’s no way to know just how far back in history man was afflicted with varicose veins – perhaps the cavemen had them under all that hair – but the subject appears in Egyptian writings dating back 3,500 years. Hippocrates himself

by VEIN Staff The American College of Phlebology and the French Society of Phlebology have teamed up to support Amigos de Salud, a humanitarian nonprofit organization that brings medical services to the underprivileged of Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. At press time, volunteer phlebology ...

The blood circulates through the body in an intricate process that researchers are only beginning to understand. Now, University of Missouri researcher Steven Segal has received the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's prestigious Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award for his work in

by VEIN Staff The American College of Phlebology and the French Society of Phlebology have teamed up to support Amigos de Salud, a humanitarian non-profit organization that brings medical services to the underprivileged of Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The organization's name means "Frie ...

by Marlin Shul, MD, MBA, RVT, FACPh The healthcare reform climate is definitively upon us and commercial carriers are dodging and shifting to limit utilization of phlebology procedures. The administrative burden of the medical vein practice has never been threatening. If the heterogeneity of medica ...

by Andrea Epstein The intersection between technology and health care covers a sweeping range of opportunities and challenges –ranging from patient access to medical information to the implementation of a valid, cost-effective EMR system. We all know that the technology revolution is not slowing ...

by Eric Mowatt-Larssen, MD, RPhS Approximately 25% of patients presenting to a vein clinic have combined superficial and deep venous reflux on duplex ultrasound. These patients tend to have more severe venous disease. Ulcers and skin changes are more common. Pain and swelling tend to be worse. Thes ...

by VIVA Staff We invite you to come and experience VIVA 10! Multispecialty Perspectives From vascular surgery, radiology, cardiothoracic surgery and vascular medicine to cardiology, the challenges facing physicians today are staggering. One of the most daunting tasks facing physicians is keeping p ...