Marylyn Donahue

Gilead Silences has cleaned up on their new $1,000 Hepatitis C pill Sovaldi (84,000 per treatment), hauling in a record-breaking $2.3 billion in its first full quarter on the market.

The Department of Veterans Affairs and other California panels’ solution to the new and extremely costly hepatitis (Hep) C drugs (Sovaldi and Olysio) is to reserve them for the patients with advanced liver diseases, including those awaiting transplants.

In response to the recent shooting at Fort Hood that killed four (including the killer’s suicide) and wounded 16, the mental health watchdog Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) views this and other recent incidents as a wake-up call to the dangers of antidepressants.