Cold Still Kills: Cold-Related Illnesses In Military Practice Freezing And Non-Freezing Cold Injury

Cold still kills: cold-related illnesses in military practice freezing and non-freezing cold injury.

Clinical Aspects of Freezing Cold Injury

Non-freezing cold injury: a multi-faceted syndrome.

We read the paper “Chronic non-freezing cold injury results in neuropathic pain due to a sensory neuropathy” by Vale and colleagues recently published in Brain with great interest. Despite the impact non-freezing cold injury (NFCI) can have on an individual’s quality of life, little research has been conducted on this condition. Indeed, in the last 10 years only 16 full papers have been publish...

The Contribution of Military Flight Boots to the Development of Non-freezing Cold Injury

Footwear worn by U.S. military aircrew personnel provides inadequate levels of protection from a prolonged cold and wet exposure when compared with that wore by ground-based, combat troops. On June 2, 1995, a U.S. Air Force F-16 C aircraft was shot down by a mobile SA-6 surface-to-air missile over Bosnia-Herzegovina while conducting a routine NATO reconnaissance mission. The pilot survived the ...

Cold stress: Manipulating freezing tolerance in plants

A single transcription factor can trigger induction of the freezing-tolerant state in Arabidopsis. Is such a factor all that is lacking in non-hardy plants?