Sidney Wolfe

Type: Person

Name: Sidney Wolfe

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Public Citizen's Wolfe Still Needling FDA

WASHINGTON -- Sidney Wolfe, MD, can talk for as long as you let him about how he got his start in consumer health advocacy.Wolfe was in his mid-30s in March 1971. He had just finished his residency and was doing hematology research at the National Institutes ... [Published MedPage Today - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Sidney Wolfe, FDA Food & Drug Administration, Public Citizen, Prescription Drug User Fee Act, Drugs

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 08 2013 - 1 reports

Two new diet drugs can boost weight loss by 5% to 10%

The new prescription medications are designed for people who are obese or for those who are overweight and have other weight-related medical problems.Story HighlightsBeginning today, the obesity medication Belviq arrives in pharmaciesThe diet drug Qsymia ... [Published USA Today - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Qsymia, Obesity, Drugs

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

FDA Food & Drug Administration

Avandia: A Drug That Should Be Banned

Note: Dr. Sidney Wolfe is testifying today before two FDA advisory committees that are meeting to consider a range of actions on the dangerous diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone), from lifting restrictions to banning it. Dr. Wolfe’s testimony is available ... [Published Public Citizen - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Avandia, European Medicines Agency, Drugs, FDA Food & Drug Administration

First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 1 reports

Dr Sidney Wolfe retires with a bang!

Avandia: A Drug That Should Be Banned Statement of Sidney M. Wolfe MD, Founder and Senior Adviser, Public Citizen’s Health Research Group June 6, 2013Contact: Angela Bradbery (202) 588-7741; Sam Jewler (202) 588-7779 Note: Dr. Sidney Wolfe is testifying ... [Published PharmaGossip - Jun 06 2013]

Entities: Avandia, Sidney Wolfe, European Medicines Agency, Drugs, FDA Food & Drug Administration

First reported Jun 03 2013 - Updated Jun 03 2013 - 1 reports

Public Citizen

Stepping Aside But Not Out: Well-Known Consumer Health Advocate Dr. Sidney Wolfe Hands Over Reins to Deputy

Wolfe to Stay on as Founder, Senior Adviser; Dr. Michael Carome to Run Public Citizen’s Health Research GroupWASHINGTON, D.C. – After leading Public Citizen’s Health Research Group for more than 40 years through everything from pitched battles against ... [Published Public Citizen - Jun 03 2013]

Entities: Sidney Wolfe, Public Citizen, Ralph Nader, Michael Carome

First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 1 reports

Immigrants Subsidized U.S. Medicare Health Program $115 Billion

Immigrants to the U.S. contributed $115.2 billion more to the Medicare Trust Fund during the past decade than they withdrew, according to a study by Harvard University researchers.The data, published today in the journal Health Affairs, suggest immigrants, ... [Published BusinessWeek - May 29 2013]

Entities: Immigration, Medicare, United States, Sidney Wolfe, Michelle Fay Cortez

First reported Mar 10 2013 - Updated Mar 10 2013 - 1 reports

What an interesting presentation by Sidney Wolfe MD

http://www.citizen.org/documents/2097.pdf ... [Published PharmaGossip - Mar 10 2013]

Entities: Sidney Wolfe

First reported Feb 22 2013 - Updated Feb 22 2013 - 1 reports

Selling Sickness: The War Against the Medical-Industrial Complex

I am a fish out of water here at the 2013 Selling Sickness conference in Washington, D.C. Although the theme of the conference -- "People Before Profits" -- resonates with a lot of public relations rhetoric of big pharma companies (e.g., "Merck. Where ... [Published Pharma Marketing Blog - Feb 22 2013]

Entities: Sidney Wolfe, Autism, Vaccine, Drugs, Public Citizen

First reported Jan 10 2013 - Updated Jan 11 2013 - 1 reports

Public Citizen target canagliflozin

FDA Should Reject Dangerous Diabetes Medication, Public Citizen Tells Advisory CommitteeCanagliflozin, Part of a New Class of Diabetes Drugs, Presents Too Many Risks to PatientsWASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should not ... [Published PharmaGossip - Jan 10 2013]

Entities: canagliflozin, Public Citizen, Diabetes

First reported Dec 26 2012 - Updated Dec 26 2012 - 1 reports

Weight Loss Pill Qsymia 'Gaining Traction'

By Kathleen DohenyWebMD Health News Reviewed by Dec. 26, 2012 -- Sales of the drug Qsymia, the first such drug to get the FDA's OK in 13 years, are increasing, despite earlier reports of sluggish interest.For the week ending Dec. 7, more than 2,000 new ... [Published WebMD - Dec 26 2012]

Entities: Qsymia, Weight Loss, Drugs

Quotes

"too many times now, a drug comes up, there's a safety problem, and they say, 'well, there's a safety question, but we need to make the pdufa deadline. we'll approve it and do the study afterward,'" Wolfe told MedPage Today in a video interview. "It clearly has an impact."

Public Citizen's Wolfe Still Needling FDA [Published MedPage Today - Jun 15 2013]

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