A University of Alberta team has developed a device to provide a more reliable, aseptic and economical treatment for frostbite, to be used in emergency rooms, shelters and even outdoors. "Frostbite ...

Cold temperatures and wind can cause frostbite, especially on exposed skin like fingers, toes, nose, and ears. It can develop rapidly in extreme conditions. Wind chill increases frostbite risk. The ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors using specialized imaging methods to precisely deliver drugs to frostbitten hands and feet may be able to save them from amputation, researchers reported on Monday. The ...

Akron Children’s is among the first U.S. hospitals using a new drug to prevent amputations among frostbite victims.

Recreational use of nitrous oxide — often referred to as whippets or laughing gas — left a 23-year-old with frostbite in his mouth and throat, according to a report of the man’s case published ...

When our weather team says the air is going to bite… sometimes they mean that quite literally. Meteorologist Derek Witt explains in this Weather Word of the Week.

(ABC) — A brutal arctic blast is bringing dangerously low temperatures to the Midwest and the Northeast. On Tuesday morning, the wind chill — what temperature it feels like — plunged to minus 13 ...