Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Diabetes Care

Abbot Laboratories was founded in 1888 by a practicing physician and owner of a drug store Wallace Calvin Abbot in North Chicago, Illinois. Today with its 90,000 employees working in more than 130 countries world-wide Abbott is one of the most far-reaching diversified company focusing on pharmaceuticals, medical devices and nutritional products. Addressing the most important health needs of the people the company offers to the market high-quality and proved pharmaceutical brands including Humira, a drug for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease, moderate to severe chronic psoriasis and juvenile idiopathic arthritis; Norvir, a treatment for HIV; Depakote, an anticonvulsant drug; and Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid hormone. The company developed the first HIV blood-screening test in 1985. Abbott portfolio includes a wide variety of nutritional products starting from pediatric nutrition, good nutrition to adults (Ensure, Glucerna, EAS) up to nutritional needs of people with a variety of conditions including cancer, diabetes, celiac disease, kidney disease and osteoporosis. Chemistry and immunodiagnostic instruments and tests for detecting disease provide health care expert information accurately and immediately. Being a pioneer in vitro diagnostics Abbott promotes creating the modern diagnostics industry. Abbott medical technologies are used by laboratories, hospitals, blood banks and medical centers to detect and monitor differing medical conditions including HIV, hepatitis, cancer, heart failure and metabolic disorders, as well as assess other important indicators of general health.