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The Roots of Public Health Activism: A Grandmother's Tale 

Yesterday we told you about the drive by the FDA's new deputy, Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, to get antibiotics banned from animal feed as a way of protecting the drugs' potency in people.

That's just the latest in a long string of activist moves by Sharfstein, who took on the AMA and campaign contributions as a Harvard med student, and stood up to drugmakers and Big Tobacco (among others) as the health commissioner of Baltimore.

Today we have a better sense of where that deep streak of feistiness comes from -- stretching back at least three generations.

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