{"id":3051,"date":"2009-09-02T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:28:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:28:32","slug":"pfizer-pays-record-2-3b-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/02\/pfizer-pays-record-2-3b-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfizer pays record $2.3B fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3055\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/09\/pills-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"pills\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The world&#8217;s biggest drug maker, Pfizer, <a title=\"pleaded guilty\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSTRE5813XB20090902\" target=\"_blank\">pleaded guilty <\/a>to a criminal charge to settle allegations of improperly marketing 13 medicines &#8220;off label&#8221; &#8212; paying a record $2.3 billion fine.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Kevin Outterson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/outterson_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Outterson<\/a>, director of the Health Law Program and an authority on drug marketing law, says &#8220;off-label&#8221; promotion is a signficant problem for public health and the FDA.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If companies can bypass the FDA and market drugs for unapproved uses, then our drug safety system has been seriously compromises.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Kevin Outterson, 617-353-3103, <a href=\"mailto:mko@bu.edu\">mko@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s biggest drug maker, Pfizer, pleaded guilty to a criminal charge to settle allegations of improperly marketing 13 medicines &#8220;off label&#8221; &#8212; paying a record $2.3 billion fine.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Kevin Outterson, director of the Health Law Program and an authority on drug marketing law, says &#8220;off-label&#8221; promotion is a signficant problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3057,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}