Background Horseback riding is a popular hobby in Iceland as it is in the other Nordic countries but has a relatively high frequency of injuries. The estimated mortality related to horseback rinding injuries is 1/10.000 riders per year. We set out to evaluate the mortality and morbidity of horsebak riding injuries presenting to the emergency department in Landspitali university hospital, Reykja...

Rosemary P. Collins1,*, Áslaug Helgadóttir2, Bodil E. Frankow-Lindberg3, Leif Skøt1, Charlotte Jones1 and Kirsten P. Skøt1 Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth SY23 3EB, UK, Agricultural University of Iceland, Keldnaholti, 112 Reykjavı́k, Iceland and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Crop Productio...

a GIPSA-Lab, 11 rue des Mathématiques, 38400 Saint Martin d'Hères, France b Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305, USA c CESBIO, 18 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France d Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Jordi Girona 1-3, edifici D5, 08034 Barcelona, Spain e Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University...

Citation: Olafsdottir D, MacKenzie BR, Chosson-P V and Ingimundardottir T (2016) Dietary Evidence of Mesopelagic and Pelagic Foraging by Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus L.) during Autumn Migrations to the Iceland Basin. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:108. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00108 Dietary Evidence of Mesopelagic and Pelagic Foraging by Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus L.) during Autumn Mig...

After the early implementation of Emergency Medicine (EM) 25 years ago, Iceland became the first Nordic country to nationally realize the benefits of this specialty. However, the road has been rocky as in many other countries. The early years of EM in Iceland were characterized by a significant shortage of resources, particularly a lack of medical staff dedicated to EM and properly trained for ...

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction in doctors is related to migration, burnout, turnover and health service quality. However, little is known about their job satisfaction during economic recessions. Iceland and Norway have similar health care systems, but only Iceland was affected severely by the 2008 economic crisis. AIMS To examine job satisfaction in Icelandic and Norwegian doctors, to compare jo...

1Department of Dermatology and 2Psychooncology Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark, 3Department of Dermatology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, 4Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Reykjavik, Iceland, 5Department of Dermatology, Örebro Medical Centre Hospital, Sweden, 6Department of Dermatology, Rikshospitalet , Oslo, Norway and the 7Blue Lagoo...