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Liz Szabo, MA November 3, 2026 Antimicrobial Stewardship Serious dental infections can be excruciating, especially when pain spreads from the mouth to the jaw, ear, and neck, or causes throat and facial swelling. When dentists aren’t available, many people with dental pain seek care from primary care providers, urgent care centers, or emergency departments (EDs), which treat nearly 2 million cases of dental pain a year in the United States. Many of these people leave with

Nationwide — An African American family from Southern California continues to speak out after the death of 92-year-old Dolores Hernandez Owens, whose passing has been linked to complications from the antibiotic Clindamycin. Their story has drawn renewed national attention following a report by investigative journalist Liz Szabo of CIDRAP News, highlighting ongoing concerns about the drug’s risks—especially in dental settings where it continues to be widely prescribed despite

Shared by her son Robert March of 2025 was supposed to be an exciting time for me. I was looking forward to receiving the Irvine Valley College Classified Staff Award of Excellence, for fighting hunger on campus, and after 30 years of working there I was getting ready to retire but these five words changed my world forever, “You know mom is sick.” These words shattered me and tore at my heart and spirit. It was antibiotics that triggered the decline of my 92-year-old old moth

ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP · C. DIFF · INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING By Liz Szabo, MA · Originally published by CIDRAP News · February 24, 2026 ANTIBIOTIC AFTERSHOCKS View the original series Dentists wrote more than 2.3 million prescriptions last year for an antibiotic called clindamycin, whose label has carried a black box warning for more than four decades, due to its high rate of life-threatening complications. One of those prescriptions was given to Dolores Hernandez Owens. Ow