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This researcher warned of unnecessary, risky vascular procedures. She was called a ‘Nazi’ and accused of ‘fratricide.’

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Baylor College of Medicine

Diabetic Foot Limb Salvage

Diabetes is a multifaceted condition that can result in severe complications, including limb loss. Two major concerns are poor circulation and diminished sensation in the feet, which heighten the risk ...
KVOA 4

N4T INVESTIGATORS: Former patients claim Arizona-based vascular clinic provided 'harmful and unnecessary' procedures

TUCSON (KVOA) - Some former patients of Arizona-based vascular outpatient clinic Modern Vascular claim they received unnecessary and harmful procedures. Kae Barnes now lives day by day without the use ...
KY3

Mercy vascular surgeon among first in country to try new leg artery blockage surgery

New advancements in medical technology are taking place every day. And a vascular surgeon at Mercy is among the first doctors in the country to perform a new procedure to treat artery blockage in the ...
HealthLeaders Media

Thousands of Patients May Be Undergoing Vascular Procedures Too Soon or Unnecessarily

Four years ago, researchers warned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that some doctors were overusing — potentially even abusing — invasive vascular procedures, increasing patients' ...
Sentinel & Enterprise

Vascular surgeon successfully completes first procedure of its kind at Leominster outpatient center

LEOMINSTER — Longtime vascular surgeon and founding member of The Vascular Care Group, Dr. Stephen Hoenig recently completed a successful percutaneous femoral-popliteal artery bypass at its Merriam ...
Bronx Times

New minimally invasive vascular surgery procedures now offered at Jacobi and North Central Bronx Hospitals

North Central Bronx announced on Monday, March 23, that they have begun offering two types of minimally invasive vascular ...
Business Wire

Dr. Stephen J. Hoenig Completes First-of-its-Kind Procedure at The Vascular Care Group, Leominster

LEOMINSTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Vascular Care Group (TVCG), a state-of-the art practice committed to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease, today announced Stephen J.
Healio

Guiding sheath used in peripheral vascular procedures recalled

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has designated a recall of a sheath used to introduce and/or guide the placement of interventional and ...
Wall Street Journal

Doctors Sound an Alarm Over Leg-Stent Surgery

Now that unnecessary heart-stent procedures happen significantly less often, doctors are flagging a new area of concern: unnecessary leg stents. Some physicians are stenting leg arteries and removing ...
KVIA

New vascular surgery procedure now available in El Paso

EL PASO, Texas -- An El Paso vascular surgeon saved a man's life by slicing his throat. And it all happened while the patient was awake. Jack Hall likes to joke that he lived to tell the tale. "I was ...