Wolfe, Sidney M.
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Fuller Name
- Sidney Manuel
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1937-06-12
Death Date
- 2024-01-01
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1971
- Organization: Health Research Group
Birth Place
- Cleveland (Ohio)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
Consumer activist
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Sources
- found: Nash, G. Taking the pain out of finding a good dentist, c1975.
- found: Information from 678 converted Dec. 11, 2014(M.D.)
- found: Washington post WWW site, viewed January 2, 2024(in obituary dated January 1, 2024: Sidney Wolfe; Sidney M. Wolfe, a doctor turned consumer activist who battled drug companies, lobbyists and regulators during a nearly five-decade crusade against ineffective, risky and overpriced medications that made him a hero to patient advocacy groups and an implacable foe to anyone who opposed him, died Jan. 1 at his home in Washington. He was 86. Dr. Wolfe did not practice medicine for long and instead spent most of his career with the Health Research Group, part of the Washington-based Public Citizen organization founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader. Sidney Manuel Wolfe was born in Cleveland on June 12, 1937. He founded the Health Research Group with Nader in 1971)
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Change Notes
- 1980-04-28: new
- 2024-01-02: revised
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