Siberian forest fires partly to blame for Seattle area violating EPA ozone limit
Smoke from giant Siberian forest fires pushed one measure of Seattle's air quality past federal environmental limits on at least one day in 2003, new research shows....... And the rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have increasingly serious ramifications for air quality all along the West Coast of North America, said Dan Jaffe, an environmental scienti...Washington, DC More than 5,000 emergency physicians and others are expected to attend the annual Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), which begins Sunday, October 6, and ends Wednesday, October 9, at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle. ... ...Emergency physicians will attend hundreds of courses on the latest clinical innovations in.... . .SEATTLE - For the first time, researchers have described the structure of a key blood-clotting protein implicated in hemophilia A, the most prevalent and serious type of hemophilia, an inherited disorder that causes recurrent, uncontrolled bleeding, most often into the joints.. .Knowing the structure of this protein, called factor VIII, gives scientists a first-hand glimpse at the subtle ch.... Secretin, a hormone that some parents claim possesses almost magical . properties as a treatment for autism, will be scientifically tested in large-. scale trials starting later this month in Seattle and Denver.. . Concurrent trials, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human . Development (NICHD), will be conducted at the University of Washington's . Center on Human Developmen...