Thorvaldur Ingvarsson, Medical Manager at Iceland’s Akureyri Hospital, said at a meeting with Greenlandic counterparts and the country’s Minister for Health that Iceland should send doctors to Greenland. Read the full story

Building work on Reykjavik’s new Landspitali Hospital will likely start in the latter half of 2011 and continue until 2016, according to a statement of intent signed yesterday by representatives of the pension funds and the Icelandic government. Read the full story

Halldor Asgrimsson, former Icelandic PM and chairman of the Progressive Party, was taken ill with pneumonia shortly before Christmas and spent two weeks on a life support machine in a serious condition. Read the full story