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  Dr. Sidney Wolfe died of brain cancer at the age 86. He was a reformer in the U.S. healthcare system.
  
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  Wolfe has been the leader of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group for over 40 years.
  
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  Wolfe served as a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee between 2008 and 2012.
  

Sidney Wolfe died in Washington on Monday. He was a doctor and activist who spent decades advocating for reforms to the U.S. healthcare system. This included more affordable health care, and stricter regulation of medical devices and drugs.

His wife, Suzanne Goldberg told Reuters that the cause was brain tumor. He was 86.

Wolfe led the Health Research Group for more than 40 years at Public Citizen, , a Washington consumer advocate group. He stepped down from the position in 2013, the organization said.

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He was also a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee between 2008 and 2012, as well as a researcher for the National Institutes of Health and adjunct professor at Case Western Reserve University.

According to Public Citizen, Wolfe and consumer advocate Ralph Nader campaigned in 1971 for a recall of contaminated intravenous liquids that could cause fatal bacterial infections.

Robert Weissman, the president of the organization, said in a statement that the United States lost a “towering leader” of public health. He also noted that, during Wolfe’s tenure at Public Citizen he had been instrumental in forcing the withdrawal of 28 harmful medications, and securing limits on 10 more, as well as protective workplace health standards, and other accomplishments.

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Goldberg, a Reuters reporter, said: “He is a wonderful person. He’s a loving and caring human being who is also dedicated to his job.”

Goldberg reported that Wolfe’s survivors include four daughters, two stepson and five grandchildren.