Hospitals across the country are reporting a surge in cold-related injuries — from slip-and-fall fractures to cardiac events ...

Winter weather can bring dangers such as frostbite, hypothermia, carbon monoxide poisoning, and frozen pipes, but people can prepare to stay safe by wearing appropriate clothing, avoiding wind gusts, ...

With winter's official start on Dec. 21, and with the Farmer's Almanac predicting early January to bring the coldest of winter's seasonal temperatures to New York, it's important to know how to ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, frostbite is an injury caused by the freezing of skin and the underlying tissue. Exposed skin ...

Hypothermia occurs when an individual is exposed to frigid temperatures for a long period of time.

As temperatures plunge during the winter months, health experts are reminding the public to take frostbite seriously—a ...

The brutal winter with its prolonged sub-zero temperatures has resulted in a large number of patients admitted to Akron ...

"If you start experiencing any of those symptoms, make sure you get into a warm space, you want to try and get it again nice ...

Symptoms include changes to the skin, including blisters, persistent redness, numbness, burning, and itching, which are all ...

To prevent these dangers, avoid cotton as a base layer and ensure extremities are well covered. “So our base layer, we don’t ...

Frostbite often sneaks up on you. Your skin loses sensitivity to cold temperatures before you detect any strange sensations.

A Sudbury woman is using her construction know-how to engineer a building material that may save people living outside from losing extremities due to extreme cold.