Perspectives on management education: an exploratory study of UK and Portuguese medical students.

Healthcare management is becoming extremely important and large health organizations face increasing demands for leadership and system change. The role of doctors is pivotal but their relationship with management issues and practice has been a matter of long-lasting debate. The aim of this research was to establish opinions of medical students and other medical educational stakeholders on the value and structure of a management and leadership course in medical school.

Criteria for setting quantitative estimates of acceptable intakes of chemicals in food in the U.K.

The U.K. Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) provides advice to government on the safety-in-use of additives and on the possible health hazards from contaminants in food.

Five new insulin-producing cell lines with differing secretory properties.

Five cell lines have been derived from a rat transplantable islet cell tumour using two different methods. The lines differ in morphology and contain and release different amounts of insulin and glucagon (insulin content, 1-90 pmol/10(6) cells; insulin release, 6-250 pmol/10(6) cells per 24 h; glucagon content, less than 0.005-35 pmol/10(6) cells; glucagon release, less than 0.