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The chief executive of AstraZeneca, which is developing a leading coronavirus vaccine with Oxford University, said it is too early to deliberately expose trial participants to the pathogen, but it may become an option if ongoing tests hit a snag. The British drugmaker last week started phase 2 and 3 trials of the vaccine, looking …

The doctor in charge of a Bay Area, Calif. trauma center said the state should end its lockdown orders after an “unprecedented” spike in suicide attempts amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We’ve never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time,” Dr. Mike deBoisblanc, head of trauma at John Muir Medical Center, told …

Dakota Johnson opened up about how she has been coping with her depression while in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. “You are at home, you’re not with your friends, you’re not with your family, you are not able to do the things that make you feel worthwhile,” Johnson, 30, recently told Extra. “You’re kind of …

Jason Wahler is donating therapy sessions to families who are grieving the death of loved ones lost to coronavirus. “The Hills” alum partnered with singer Hilary Roberts and The Red Songbird Foundation to launch the #GiveGriefAChance campaign. “We’re looking to help at least 20 people with up to 12 therapy sessions at no cost, who …

Ginger Zee, who suffers from depression, says she feels the darkness creeping in amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I wake up some mornings, still, and I see the darkness,” she wrote on Instagram for Mental Health Awareness Month. “I feel it’s slow creep, like blinds on the windows on a timer. Slowly closing, trying to take …

Dakota Johnson has learned to accept into her depression. “I’ve struggled with depression since I was young — since I was 15 or 14,” she told Marie Claire’s summer 2020 issue. “That was when, with the help of professionals, I was like, ‘Oh, this is a thing I can fall into.’ But I’ve learned to …

Hayley Williams’ divorce from Chad Gilbert took such a toll she ended up in the hospital. The former Paramore singer revealed the stress of their breakup manifested itself during her “f–ked” up dreams in late 2018 and caused her to have panic attacks. “They’re pretty f–ked. There’s often water in my dreams. I’ve always written …

Singer JoJo has revealed that she has been battling depression for 10 years. “Because there is a history of mental health issues in my family, I didn’t feel any shame seeking help,” the 29-year-old “Leave (Get Out)” performer told People. JoJo has been going to therapy and taking antidepressants since she was 18 years old …

“General Hospital” star Maurice Benard details his battle with mental illness in his new memoir, recounting a manic episode so severe he believed Michael Jackson was singing about him. The 57-year-old — who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at 22 years old — was prescribed lithium, a “wonder drug” he would take on and off, …

Cecily Strong penned an essay about mourning her cousin Owen, who died of brain cancer this year, as well as navigating a new romantic relationship, while in quarantine amid the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m in the middle of my two-week quarantine in my tiny apartment in New York. I’ve cried every day,” she wrote in the …