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Sidney Manuel Wolfe

Jun 17, 1937 - Jan 01, 2024 Age: 86

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Author, Educator, Health Activist and Physician. He is best remembered as the director and co-founder of the Health Research Group. He received a BA from Cornell University in 1959 and a medical degree from Western Reserve University in 1965. After meeting Ralph Nader at a meeting in Washington, D.C., he and Nader co-founded the Health Research Group in 1971. Furthermore, his first book "Off Diabetes Pills: A Diabetic's Guide to Longer Life" was released in 1978. Plus, he also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. In 1990, he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship. After being appointed to the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee, prescriptions of propoxyphene, which Wolfe spent several years campaigning against, was discontinued on November 19, 2010. Moreover, he appeared as an interviewee in the 2012 documentary "Certain Adverse Events." A year later, he stepped down as the director of the Health Research Group and became its senior advisor. He died from a brain tumor.

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Place of Birth: Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA Place of Passing: Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA

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06-17-1937

Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA

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01-01-2024

Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA

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