the couple's son died nine days after receiving a vaccine for muse yelz, mumps and rubella. they were awarded $250,000 for the loss however, the couple wanted great compensation for emotional damages. the decision said federal law does not allow a reward of more than $250,000 for a vaccine related death. >> a 49er great is working with a hospital on a new effort to use music to help ill children. today, agreeing to hold steve young's forever young foundation on a plan to create a music therapy room. >> this is exciting part is that opt and our vision have come together and there is a place to do it. this is wonderful. >> so there is a play room called forever young skoon. and kids can just play and it's a procedure free zone z there is more in our nfl pregame show. it's coming to abc 7 and are going to broadcast here on abc 7 as well as december 6th game in oakland between raiders and banjo -- bronco autos coming up next, there is a preview of the ansel adams collectiñaú >>> coming up at 6:00 the efforts to ban the use of fogs to hunt down bears and bob cats. the final chap

vaccines have eliminated polio, and all but wiped out measles, mumps and rubella.nk the reason why we're not seeing a lot of those illnesses is just because of that. not because we're necessarily a healthier population, but because we've taken steps to try and eradicate those diseases that we could eradicate. we have a tremendous number of vaccines we didn't have even when i started practicing, for instance, the h-flu vaccine which came out in the late 80s and we started giving it before the age of 2 in the 90s. when i started practicing, my very first week in practice, i almost lost a child to h-flu meningitis. carried them in the back of my car to the emergency room, ran them in... thankfully they did well. but that's a disease we don't even see anymore because of the h-flu type b vaccine. what we see most commonly now is respiratory infections, especially otitis media. we see a tremendous number of children with ear infections. other respiratory infections are very common-- coughs, cold, sinus and cause us a lot of visits. catherine parrish: and that's because k