{"id":3397,"date":"2009-10-09T14:57:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T18:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2009-11-02T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T19:29:43","slug":"glaxo-bets-on-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/10\/09\/glaxo-bets-on-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"Glaxo bets on pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3600\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/10\/swine.bmp\" alt=\"swine\" width=\"281\" height=\"244\" \/>British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC has spent more than $3.2 billion over the past five years on research and acquisitions\u00a0<a title=\"specifically related\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125503764592374389.html\" target=\"_blank\">specifically related <\/a>to an anticipated flu pandemic.\u00a0 Now comes the payoff as the swine flu sweeps the world.\u00a0 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>, head of the Health Law Program and an authority on drug marketing, said Glaxo deserves what it now can reap.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It is very important for governments to reward Glaxo for these efforts. We should stop insisting on bargain prices for valuable vaccines produced to address pandemics.&#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>British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC has spent more than $3.2 billion over the past five years on research and acquisitions\u00a0specifically related to an anticipated flu pandemic.\u00a0 Now comes the payoff as the swine flu sweeps the world.\u00a0 Law Professor Kevin Outterson, head of the Health Law Program and an authority on drug marketing, said Glaxo [&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":[1923,1922,1323,1924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397"}],"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=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3602,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}