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LA BioMed researchers find lower response rates to antidepressants with African-Americans, Latinos
11-13-2007 · EurekAlert!Drawing from data in the nation's largest real-world study of treatment-resistant depression, a team led by researchers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center reported in November's Medical Care journal that African-Americans and Latinos didn't respond as well as whites to medication for their depression.
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