Quick Facts
Stock Symbol:	ABT
# of Employees:	70,000 worldwide, 500 in Boston area
Corporate HQ:	Bedford, MA
Employer Home Page:	www.medisense.com
Employer Careers Page:	www.medisense.com/career.html

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Company Description:

Abbott Laboratories, MediSense Products produces a complete line of blood glucose monitoring systems. These innovations give individuals with diabetes accurate and convenient testing options. In addition, we supply hospitals and medical professionals with state-of-the-art metering systems.

If you are a professional driven by a passion to improve the lives of others, you need a company that not only possesses the same ambitions but also has the resources to make things happen. Enter Abbott Laboratories, a $13.7-billion industry leader. For more than a century, we've been paving the way in health care product development and services. Our dynamic team of more than 70,000 employees worldwide has pioneered breakthrough AIDS tests and treatments, world-renowned nutritionals, powerful antibiotics, advanced diagnostic equipment, and innovative anesthetics. With a presence in more than 130 countries, our dynamic line of superior products is making advanced health care around the globe a reality.

A growing part of that reality is MediSense Products. Our domestic business activities are based in Bedford, Massachusetts, 18 miles northwest of Boston. Here, more than 500 employees are actively engaged in the design, development, manufacture and distribution of blood glucose-monitoring meters and related products.