- Dr. Sidney Wolfe, an advocate of health care reform in the United States, has died of brain cancer at the age of 86.
- For more than 40 years, Mr. Wolf led the health research group at Public Citizen, a Washington-based consumer advocacy group.
- Mr. Wolf also served on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee from 2008 to 2012.
Sidney Wolfe, a physician who campaigned for decades for reforms across the U.S. health care system, including more affordable care and greater oversight of drug safety and medical devices, died Monday in Washington.
The cause was a brain tumor, his wife Suzanne Goldberg told Reuters. He was 86 years old.
Wolf ran the health research group at Public Citizen, a Washington consumer advocacy group, for more than 40 years before retiring in 2013, the group said.
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He also served as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health and an adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University, and as a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee from 2008 to 2012.
Dr. Sidney Wolfe was director of the Public Citizen's Health Research Group. Mr. Wolf died Monday in Washington at age 86 after a battle with brain cancer, his wife confirmed. (Diana Walker/Getty Images)
In 1971, Wolff and consumer advocate Ralph Nader campaigned for the recall of contaminated intravenous fluids that can cause sometimes fatal bacterial infections, according to Public Citizen.
The group's president, Robert Wiseman, said in a statement that the United States has lost an “authoritative public health leader” and that during Wolf's time at Public Citizen, he was responsible for enforcing recalls of 28 dangerous drugs. , said he was instrumental in winning the restriction on its use. Protective workplace health standards and other outcomes, plus 10 others.
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“Apart from being a wonderful person and passionate about his work, he is a very loving and caring human being,” Goldberg told Reuters.
Goldberg said Wolf is survived by four daughters, two sons-in-law and five grandchildren.
