WBJ Staff

An 80,000-square-foot building on Route 9 in Shrewsbury that formerly housed the medical technology company Valeritas has sold for about $6.3 million.

A 17,000-square-foot medical office building overlooking I-290 just east of downtown Worcester has sold for just over $5.4 million.

Public health officials are anxiously awaiting a vaccine to help end the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, and pharmaceutical companies are racing to bring something to the market.

Massachusetts trails national rates of how many of its coronavirus cases are in children, but those up to age 19 make up 6,900 of the state's cases since the pandemic began, according to a study by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the economy, experts at a WBJ panel on Tuesday will aim to address some key questions about current national and economic data and attempt to provide some perspective.

Worcester and Framingham, the two most populous Central Massachusetts communities, along with four others have made a new state advisory list of communities at elevated risk for coronavirus infections.

Mill & Main, a brick mill complex in Maynard spanning more than 1 million square feet, has resigned leases with four tenants and brought in a new one.

Housing authorities in Central Massachusetts, which are charged with overseeing affordable housing, have taken in nearly $2 million in federal funds to help lower-income residents stay in their homes despite the economic upheaval related to the coronavirus pandemic.

A Marlborough manufacturer of body sculpting products has sued to prevent Irish and German companies from importing products it says infringe on its patents.

Calare Properties, a Framingham developer, is planning a 120,000-square-foot industrial building in Acton at the former home of video technology firm SeaChange International.