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Ladies: tired of hiding your legs because of those dreadful spider veins? No more hide and seek to find those sexy legs! With summer only days away, doctors have come up with a minimally invasive procedure to have the legs you deserve.

According to NYTimes.com, the FDA recently approved a new solution called Asclera, which can be injected into the varicose veins to make them collapse and disappear. This new ‘miracle drug’ (aka sclerotherapy,) can treat anything from the tiny spider veins up to the bulging varicose veins.

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Today I saw a new patient. She is female, educated, economically stable, about 54 years old. Several months ago she sought treatment for spider veins on her legs. She went to… a laser clinic. The clinic treated her with some injections and some lasers and they burned her skin and her spider veins remained. So she decided what she needed to do was go to… a vein clinic.

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Spider veins aka varicose veins are climbing up more legs than they should. How do we get rid of them? Luckily, Dr. Robert Butler of Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York has a few updated tips.

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