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Missed BEAT Removes Tough Sell For United Therapeutics

 
• By Eleanor Malone

The Phase III failure of esuberaprost combined with Tyvaso in pulmonary arterial hypertension has prompted United Therapeutics to stop developing a therapy that was already facing an uphill battle for potentially meager returns.

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Esuberaprost and Tyvaso combo was tiny part of PAH outlook before BEAT failure

A Phase III failure is never good news, but for United Therapeutics Corp. the discontinuation of its investigational oral prostacyclin receptor agonist esuberaprost in combination with its marketed inhaled prostacyclin receptor agonist Tyvaso (treprostinil) may not be so bad.

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