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Worstpills.org is researched, written and maintained by Public Citizen, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public interest group founded in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress, the executive branch and the courts.

Consumer advocate Dr. Sidney Wolfe and his team of experts work for research-based, system-wide changes in health care policy, with a primary focus on working to ban or relabel unsafe or ineffective drugs and to encouraging greater transparency and accountability in the drug approval process.

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The Authors

Sidney Wolfe, M.D. has been the Director of the Health Research Group, a division of Public Citizen, since its creation in 1971.

Prior to co-founding the Health Research Group, in 1966 Dr. Wolfe began working at the National Institutes of Health where he did research on aspects of blood-clotting and on alcoholism. He met Ralph Nader in Washington, D.C. at a meeting of the American Patients Association, began advising Mr. Nader on health problems in America and helped in the recruitment of medical student volunteers who worked for Mr. Nader.

Since 1995, Dr. Wolfe has been an Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. His medical degree is from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio and his internship and residency were in internal medicine. He is currently a member of the Society for General Internal Medicine. His awards include receiving the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1990.

Elizabeth Barbehenn, Ph.D. was trained as a biochemist and was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for 10 years. Subsequently, she worked for the Food and Drug Administration as a pharmacologist for 13 years analyzing toxicity data from animal studies. Since 1998, she has been with Public Citizen where she continues her work analyzing drug safety.

Larry Sasich, Pharm.D., M.P.H., FASHP has been a researcher and consultant to Public Citizen since 1995 where his main focus has been Worst Pills, Best Pills News. He has held faculty positions in the U.S. and abroad. His pharmacy degrees are from Idaho State University and the University of the Pacific, and his Masters of Public Health is from The George Washington University.

Philip Hansten, Pharm.D., Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, received his doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of California, San Francisco. His primary interest is drug interactions, and he has published numerous books and papers on this topic. He has held faculty positions at the University of Washington and Washington State University, and has participated in drug interaction research in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at Stanford University School of Medicine.