Abbott Laboratories | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-28

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00:01:49 1 History
00:11:20 1.1 Acquisition history
00:11:41 2 Finances
00:12:27 3 Organization
00:13:53 4 Management structure
00:14:34 5 Management practices
00:16:01 6 Ownership
00:16:25 7 Litigation
00:16:34 7.1 Humira
00:17:43 7.2 Depakote
00:19:29 8 Sponsorship
00:19:47 9 See also
00:20:08 10 Notes and references
00:20:19 11 External links



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Abbott Laboratories is an American health care company with headquarters in Lake Bluff, Illinois, United States. The company was founded by Chicago physician Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 to formulate known drugs; it eventually grew to also sell research-based drugs, medical devices, diagnostics, and nutritional products.  It split off the research-based pharmaceuticals into AbbVie in 2013.  In 2017, revenues were $27.39 billion.
Abbott has a broad range of branded generic pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, and nutrition products. The company's in-vitro diagnostics business performs immunoassays and blood screening. Its medical tests and diagnostic instrument systems are used worldwide by hospitals, laboratories, blood banks, and physician offices to diagnose and monitor diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, cancer, heart failure and metabolic disorders, as well as assess other indicators of health.  In 1985, the company developed the first HIV blood-screening test.
Abbott Point-of-Care manufactures diagnostic products for blood analysis to provide health care professionals diagnostics information at the point of patient care. Abbott also provides point-of-care cardiac assays to the emergency department.