Scrotal Pain: Five Signs You Have a Varicocele That Requires Treatment
Scrotal ache and heaviness are easy to ignore and easy to treat. Here is how to tell a varicocele that can be left alone from one that shouldn't be.
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Tips for Improving Circulation as the Weather Warms Up
Warmer weather makes almost everything that helps your circulation easier to do. Here is what actually moves the needle, and what it cannot fix.
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What Is PAD, and How Does It Affect Your Legs?
PAD is a plumbing problem with a deadline. Here is what it does to the legs, and why catching it early is the difference between a treatment and an amputation.
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Understanding Peripheral Vascular Disease
PVD is common, under-diagnosed, and treatable. A clear look at what it is, what it feels like, and what raises your risk.
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Varicose Veins: More Than Skin Deep
The bulge you can see is the last step in the process, not the first. Why varicose veins are a medical condition and what happens when they are ignored.
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Ageing Gracefully: Maintaining Vascular Health as You Get Older
Arteries stiffen with time. How much they stiffen, and what it costs you, is substantially within your control.
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Genicular Artery Embolization: A Real Alternative to Knee Surgery
For the large group of patients whose injections have stopped working but who are not ready for a knee replacement, there has long been nothing. GAE is what fills that gap.
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Treatment Options for Varicose Veins: Which Is Right for You?
There is no single best varicose vein treatment. There is a best treatment for a particular vein in a particular leg, and the ultrasound is what tells you which.
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Understanding Peripheral Artery Disease: Symptoms to Watch For
PAD is one of the most commonly missed diagnoses in medicine, mostly because its early symptoms are so easy to attribute to age.
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How Smoking Affects Your Vascular Health, and What Helps You Quit
For any patient with a vascular diagnosis, stopping smoking changes the outlook more than any procedure a vascular specialist can offer.
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The Link Between Diabetes and Vascular Disease
Diabetes is, in vascular terms, a disease of the blood vessels that happens to be diagnosed by a blood sugar test.
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