Gap in minority therapy found

Melissa Evans, Daily Breeze

Blacks and Latinos who are depressed may need more than medication to overcome their condition, suggests the nation’s largest study of antidepressant therapy.

The newest findings from the five-year study, led by researchers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute near Torrance, have significant implications for depressed patients and doctors who may be inclined to give up after medication fails to help certain people.

“You don’t lose faith,” said Dr. Ira Lesser, a researcher on the project who wrote a recent article on the findings. “You keep trying other therapies. What we are seeing is that the initial response (to depression) for these groups may not be the best.”

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