The company has tried to create new enthusiasm with with efforts to expand into hepatitis C, the viral liver disease that is looking like the next big drug market, and into other areas such as heart disease, cystic fibrosis, and pulmonaryarterialhypertension.
The study of a sustained release oral formulation of the synthetic form of prostacylin showed that patients treated for pulmonaryarterialhypertension did not achieve a statistically significant improvement in how far they were able to walk within six minutes by week 16 of the trial.