LOS ANGELES, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- This week the Los Angeles County, Department of Public Health's Office of AIDS Programs and Policy is launching its most comprehensive community outreach campaign ever to encourage HIV testing.

By DONNA GOODISON State officials have linked seven E. coli cases to ground beef from local Whole Foods Markets eaten by the affected persons last month.

By Laurel J. Sweet, Boston Herald Jul. 8--Three more cases of salmonella in Massachusetts have been linked to the nationwide outbreak suspected of stemming from certain raw tomatoes, the state Department of Public Health announced this afternoon.

By Laurel J. Sweet, Boston Herald Jul. 8--BLUEBLOODED BEVERLY FARMS -- the North Shore snobs whose Fourth of July parade poked fun at working-class Gloucester's teen pregnancy scandal -- has a teen baby mama problem in its own backyard, the Herald has found.

By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Apr. 7--Two years after the state created the new Department of Public Health, Director Mark Horton on Monday introduced its advisory committee.