SANTA FE, N.M -- New Mexico Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil said it's important for children to be immunized against serious and sometimes fatal diseases, such as whooping cough and measles. He said the benefits of vaccines outweigh any theoretical risk. Full Article at KOAT

The father of a girl who developed autism-like symptoms after receiving several vaccinations in a single sitting doesn’t oppose vaccines. “I want to make it clear I am not anti-vaccine,” Jon Poling, who has an MD and a PhD, told WebMD. Full Article at Wall Street Journal

The federal government has agreed to award damages from a special vaccine compensation fund to the family of a girl with symptoms of autism. Full Article at NPR

Federal health officials restated their belief in the safety of childhood vaccines Thursday, reacting to questions raised by ... Full Article at USA Today

ATLANTA -- The government has agreed to pay the family of an autistic girl from a federal fund that compensates people injured by vaccines. U.S. officials generally reject the idea that the vaccines cause autism. Full Article at WESH

ATLANTA (AP) -- For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism, the sad case of a Georgia girl, daughter of a doctor and lawyer, seems like clear-cut evidence. The government has agreed to pay the girl's family for injury caused by vaccines. Full Article at Associated Press

ATLANTA - The parents of a girl who won a government settlement described how their hearts were broken as they watched their healthy, red-haired toddler transformed into an irritable, odd-behaving child after she got several childhood shots. Full Article at Boston Herald

In an unusual case, a federal agency links a girl's disorder to shots. Full Article at Los Angeles Times

Officials with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scrambled Thursday to reassure the public that childhood vaccines are safe after news spread of another agency acknowledging a link between a child's autism and the shots she... Full Article at The Seattle Times