Ethics in medicines development

摘要

Greg Koski provoked a discussion articulating challenging situations where the regulators and the society require more and more evidence of safety and efficacy which leads to larger amount of money and time invested into product development. He posed a fundamental question whether health is human right or a value in marketplace. He explained about the limitation what "laws" can do to bound people's behavior and stressed importance of ethics to guide people's actions based on a set of values agreed in a civilized society.