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| 'Pushy patients' and abortion pills - the papers | 'Pushy patients' and abortion pills - the papers |
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| Two very different health stories stand out among a mixed bag of headlines on Saturday. | Two very different health stories stand out among a mixed bag of headlines on Saturday. |
| The head of "NHS rationing body" NICE tells the Daily Telegraph that British patients should follow the example of their US cousins and be more "pushy" about the medication they want from their GPs. | The head of "NHS rationing body" NICE tells the Daily Telegraph that British patients should follow the example of their US cousins and be more "pushy" about the medication they want from their GPs. |
| The Daily Mirror, meanwhile, has a warning about potentially dangerous abortion pills available to buy online - potentially by "desperate teen girls" - for just 78p. | The Daily Mirror, meanwhile, has a warning about potentially dangerous abortion pills available to buy online - potentially by "desperate teen girls" - for just 78p. |
| Warnings abound elsewhere too - in the Financial Times, they relate to vulnerable emerging economies in the face of a currency shock, while for the Daily Express, it's the weather we should all be worrying about. | Warnings abound elsewhere too - in the Financial Times, they relate to vulnerable emerging economies in the face of a currency shock, while for the Daily Express, it's the weather we should all be worrying about. |
| Saturday's i accuses David Cameron of "fiddling" figures which suggested most Britons were better off in 2013. Discussing that and other stories for the BBC News Channel paper review, James Miller, from the Sunday Post, said: "This is another dodgy data story. We've also had questions over crime stats this week and questions over health stats. | |
| "So the government can sit and tell us everything is turning round, but if they also keep getting caught out with dodgy stats, it maybe explains why people are less inclined to believe the corner has been turned." | |
| Louise Court, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, said "people still feel they're in a recession and they're still behaving that way". | |
| And she added: "It's quite dangerous territory for the government to go out and bang the drum [like this]... they're asking people to take pot shots at them, aren't they?" |