Description : For more than a century, Abbott Laboratories has been working to advance health care for people around the world. Founded in 1888 by a young Chicago physician, Dr Wallace Calvin Abbott, Abbott Laboratories has evolved into a diversified health care company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets innovative products and services. Products and services of Abbott span the continuum of care from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and cure.

Abbott Laboratories today is a global, diversified health care company devoted to the discovery, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical, diagnostic, nutritional and hospital products. The company now employs approximately 70,000 people and markets its products in 130 countries worldwide.