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Since Malaysia Flight 370 disappeared two weeks ago,

world attention has been focused on the missing plane.

Are there lessons for health care?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

Media coverage of Flight 370 has been nonstop for two weeks.

26 countries have been searching for the missing plane.

Why are we so troubled by airline disasters but oblivious to medical mistakes?

During the time that Flight 370 has been missing, over 14,000 people died from health care harm.

That's equal to 50 jumbo jets.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,

we talk with aviation analyst John Nance and Nurse Kathleen Bartholomew

about what the airline industry can teach us about patient safety.

First, this news.

In the People's Pharm health headlines, epidemiologists have questioned the validity of standard dietary advice to avoid saturated fat for the sake of heart health.

Over the last several decades, nutrition experts, dietitians, and cardiologists have warned Americans to cut back on

sat fat found in meat, butter, cheese, whole milk, and coconut. The theory was that saturated

fat would raise cholesterol in clog arteries, leading to heart attacks and strokes.

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