{"id":3307,"date":"2009-09-29T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2009-09-29T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:24:55","slug":"big-pharma-chases-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/09\/29\/big-pharma-chases-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Pharma chases vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big Pharma players Johnson &amp; Johnson, Abbott, and Merck all bet on vaccines this week by making <a title=\"deals\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125417905531847679.html?mod=djemTMB\" target=\"_blank\">deals <\/a>for the rights to new flu vaccines.\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, says vaccines are hot because they&#8217;re the most expensive in history.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;With vaccines, the key is significant population coverage, so these vaccines won\u2019t achieve their potential health gains unless the companies and governments work together to make them fully available for people who aren\u2019t rich.&#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>Big Pharma players Johnson &amp; Johnson, Abbott, and Merck all bet on vaccines this week by making deals for the rights to new flu vaccines.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Kevin Outterson, director of the Health Law Program and an authority on drug marketing, says vaccines are hot because they&#8217;re the most expensive in history. &#8220;With [&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\/3307"}],"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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3310,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}