Hippocratic Oath for Drug Execs

Drug execs should take a Hippocratic Oath

Pharmaceutical executives such as Martin Shkreli, who has been sent to prison for for securities fraud after gaining notoriety for jacking up the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000%, give the whole industry a bad name, says Bob More. A managing partner at the US venture-capital firm Alta Partners, More argues that the industry must do more to quash the behaviour that destroys public trust and ultimately hits the bottom line.

Nature | 4 min read