Craig Leonardi MD slams Abbott studies

34th Annual Hawaii Derm Seminar heard Craig Leonardi MD slam Abbott Laboratories for their handling of their latest psoriasis studies ….

Never in doubt, and always with conviction, Dr Leonardi laid out reasons he felt that some studies were being pushed at the expense of full disclosure.  He also took aim at those physicians in the community (and also in the audience) who participated in these studies.  He intimated that some of these studies had adverse events which were serious, and yet not emphasiszed or adequately reported. 

To be fair to Abbott, there does appear to have been a significant amount of effort on their part with regard to updating information and consent forms to reflect newly discovered AEs. 

However, this type of discussion is a healthy hallmark of the Hawaii Derm Seminar, where speakers feel free to criticize companies and even their own colleagues in a full and frank manner. Only in this way can we seek out fact from fiction…..

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