Abbott Health Care (P) Ltd.

Abbott Laboratories is one of the oldest Leading healthcare and most successful pharmaceutical companies in the United States .Abbott Laboratories engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of health care products worldwide. Its Established Pharmaceutical Products segment offers branded generic pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, irritable bowel syndrome or biliary spasm, pain, fever, inflammation, hypothyroidism, gynecological disorders, intrahepatic cholestasis or depressive symptoms, physiological rhythm of the colon, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, as well as provides anti-infective and influenza vaccines.

Abbott Laboratories has its origin in the late 19th century in a small pharmaceutical operation run from the kitchen of a Chicago physician named Wallace Calvin Abbott. As did other physicians of the time.In 1888 at the age of 30, Dr. Wallace C. Abbott,founded the Abbott Alkaloidal Company.In 1915 Company changes its name to Abbott Laboratories. At the time he was a practicing physician and owned a drug store Abbott had to consider new ways to organize its sections. International expansion began in 1931. In 1985, the company developed the first HIV blood screening test. In 1967, Abbott Laboratories successfully challenged the FDA .In 2011, the company was ranked as Top 20 BioPharma employers by Science

Some major products added by Abbott Laboratories in the year of 2006:-

• Diagnostics
• Vascular
• Nutrition
• Vision
• Pharamaceutical
• Animal Health