Will the new kid on the anticoagulant block steal the limelight from warfarin?

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Maybe I need to get out more,but I am quite excited-there is a new drug that,in my opinion,really makes the huge sums of money,time and intellectual ef-fort invested in drug development worthwhile.As I flick through the pages of the various journals that land on my desk,most pharmaceutical advertisements warrant,at best,only a cursory glance and the page is often turned with a thought along the lines of"why on earth do we need another angiotensin II receptor antagonist?".Recently,however,some of these pages have triggered a much more positive and hopeful outlook.