For today's Founder Stories, I met with Ram Ramkumar, co-founder and new CEO of Concept.io, which last week launched Swell, an adaptive mobile app that streams audio news content. Ram explains how, as CEO, he has to focus on usability and design, which is in contrast to his experience running a technical team at Snaptell.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/4i5hYlPqxrM/
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We have one more stop on the long road from Sofia to Ljubljana and each city has been better than the last. In Belgrade we met some exciting startups including the winner, Pubsonic, the winner that night, and Warrant.ly. In Zagreb we met SizeM, a unique bra-fitting app, and a clever Kinect-based animation programSource: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ZHWw9iTLElE/
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BATROVCI, Serbia (Reuters) - A day after Croatia joined the European Union, a glitch in its EU-standard customs software caused huge delays at the border with Serbia, the bloc's new external frontier.
Some 1,300 trucks were stuck on Tuesday in a 15 km (10 miles) long queue at the Batrovci crossing just inside Serbia, which lies along Europe's main transit road from Turkey to Western Europe.
The drivers, mostly from southeastern Europe, said they were worried about the fresh produce they were ferrying, as they had to wait for 12 hours or more to cross.
"We have a huge problem. All of Europe is waiting for us," Bulgarian driver Emil Donev, bound for Italy, told Reuters.
"Customs are not working at all, the police will not let us leave our trucks and we are only moving 200 to 300 meters per hour," he said.
The problems with the new software were quickly fixed but it will take two or three days for commercial traffic to return to normal, Serbian customs duty chief Predrag Milikara told Reuters.
A statement from Croatia's customs service said problems were to be expected following the country's accession to the EU.
"It's all part of the adjustment," the statement said.
Croatia became the 28th member of the European Union on Monday, 20 years since the violent collapse of Yugoslavia.
Passenger cars were moving normally.
(Reporting by Valerie Hopkins; Editing by Zoran Radosavljevic and Raissa Kasolowsky)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/trucks-pile-border-eu-member-croatia-151146701.html
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ATLANTA (AP) ? Middle-aged women account for the fastest-growing share of overdose deaths in the U.S., and their drug of choice is usually prescription painkillers, the government reported Tuesday.
"It's a serious health problem and it's getting worse rapidly," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which compiled the data.
For many decades, the overwhelming majority of U.S. overdose deaths were men killed by heroin or cocaine. But by 2010, 40 percent were women ? most of them middle-aged women who took prescription painkillers.
Skyrocketing female overdose death rates are closely tied to a boom in the use of prescribed painkillers. The new report is the CDC's first to spotlight how the death trend has been more dramatic among women.
The CDC found that the number and rate of female prescription drug overdose deaths increased by around 400 percent from 1999 to 2010. For men, the increases were around 250 percent.
Overall, more men still die from overdoses of painkillers and other drugs; there were about 23,000 such deaths in 2010, compared with about 15,300 for women. Men tend to take more risks with drugs than women, and often are more prone to the kind of workplace injuries that lead to their being prescribed painkillers in the first place, experts say.
But the gap between men and women has been narrowing dramatically.
A jump was also seen in visits to hospital emergency rooms. Painkiller-related ER visits by women more than doubled between 2004 and 2010, the CDC found.
Studies suggest that women are more likely to have chronic pain, to be prescribed higher doses, and to use pain drugs longer than men. Some research suggests women may be more likely than men to "doctor shop" and get pain pills from several physicians, CDC officials said.
But many doctors may not recognize these facts about women, said John Eadie, director of a Brandeis University program that tracks prescription-drug monitoring efforts across the United States.
The report calls for "a mindset change" by doctors, who have traditionally thought of drug abuse as a men's problem, he said. That means doctors should consider the possibility of addiction in female patients, think of alternative treatments for non-cancer chronic pain, and consult state drug monitoring programs to find out if a patient has a worrisome history with painkillers.
The CDC report focuses on prescription opioids like Vicodin and OxyContin and their generic forms, methadone, and a powerful newer drug called Opana, or oxymorphone.
CDC researchers reviewed death certificates, which are sometimes incomplete. In only a fraction of cases were specific drugs identified. Sometimes a combination of drugs was involved in deaths, like painkillers taken with tranquilizers.
It was not always clear which deaths were accidental overdoses and which were suicides, CDC officials said.
One striking finding involved the age of women: The greatest increases in drug overdose deaths were in women ages 45 through 64.
It's an age group in which more women are dealing with chronic pain and beginning to seek help for it, some experts suggested.
Many of these women probably were introduced to painkillers through a doctor's prescriptions for real pain, such as persistent aches in the lower back or other parts of the body. Then some no doubt became addicted, said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, a psychiatrist who specializes in addiction at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.
There aren't "two distinct populations of people being helped by opioid painkillers and addicts being harmed. There's overlap," said Kolodny, president of a 700-member organization named Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/drug-overdose-deaths-spike-among-middle-aged-women-160518369.html
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HAMBURG, Germany (AP) ? Wladmir Klitschko will defend his multiple heavyweight titles against mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin in a highly anticipated showdown on Oct. 5 in Moscow.
Klitschko's management says the fight, long in the making, will take place in the Olympic Arena.
"This is the best fight that the heavyweight division has to offer at the moment," Klitschko said in a statement Tuesday.
Klitschko holds the IBF and IBO belts and is also the WBO and WBA "super champion." Povetkin, 33, is WBA's "regular champion."
Klitschko's older brother Vitali is the WBC champion. The Ukraine-born brothers have dominated the heavy division for a decade.
Russia's Povetkin is like Wladimir Klitschko a former Olympic champion and has a 26-0 record, with 18 KOs.
Klitschko is 60-3. His last fight was a sixth-round TKO over Francesco Pianeta in May.
The Klitschkos rarely fight outside Germany, their base.
"I've never boxed in Moscow and I'm looking forward to many Ukrainians and Russians who will come to the arena and create a special atmosphere," Klitschko said.
Povetkin, who beat Ruslan Chagaev on points in August 2011 for the then-vacant title, also last fought in May and stopped Polish challenger Andrzej Wawrzyk in the third round for his fourth successful title defense.
Klitschko, 37, will be in his 24th title fight.
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