The Icelandic Medicines Agency has decided to recall the exempted drug Theralene. The recall applies to pharmaceutical distributors, pharmacies and patients. It is an oral drops solution and contains 40 mg/ml of almemazine in a 30 ml bottle.

Continued delays in processing cases at the Directorate of Health

On May 21st, the first meeting of the newly formed steering group on safety of airway in Iceland was held at the Icelandic Transport Authority.

Confirmed cases of Influenza were fewer in week 12 compared to week 11, whereas the number of clinical diagnoses of Influenza-like illness were similar between weeks.

Ísland.is authentication system is the topic of discussion in the Digital Chat. Guests are Adeline Tracz, project manager for new development from the Landspítali University Hospital, Eiríkur Nilsson founder and technical director at Aranja, and Hrefna Lind Ásgeirsdóttir CTO at Digital Iceland.

Applications are now accepted for regional quota for the fishing year 2022/2023.

They were given an introduction to the operational status and the role of SAk as a teaching and support hospital.

The World Sight Day 2024 is held on October 10th. The day is intended to raise public awareness all over the world about blindness and visual impairment, vision loss and vision protection.

This week, Salvör Norðdal, the Ombudsman for Children, and Herdís Gunnarsdóttir, the director of the Welfare Quality and Inspection Authority, met with experts from both institutions.

World Hand Hygiene Day is 5 May