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New treatment for frostbite saves limbs
03 Jun 2008

An American medical study has tested new sucessful techniques and drugs to treat frostbite. In the future, this treatment could mean that fewer mountaineers suffering from severe frostbite will have to have arms, legs, fingers or toes amputated.