Boston Scientific

<tr class="logo"><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center; padding:16px 0 16px 0;">150px</td></tr> <tr class="note"><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Type</th><td>Public ()</td></tr><tr class="note"><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Founded</th><td>1979</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Headquarters</th><td class="adr"></span></span>Natick, Massachusetts</td></tr><tr class="note"><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>John Abele, Founder & Director
Peter Nicholas, Founder & Chairman
James Tobin, CEO
Paul LaViolette, COO</td></tr><tr class="note"><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Industry</th><td>Medical Instruments & Supplies</td></tr><tr class="note"><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Revenue</th><td>▲$7.821 Billion USD (2006)</td></tr><tr class="note"><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Net income</th><td>(Template:Loss$3.557 Billion) USD (2006)</td></tr><tr class="note"><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Employees</th><td>28,600 (2007)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th><td class="url">www.bostonscientific.com</td></tr>

Boston Scientific

The Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) (abbreviated BSC), is a worldwide developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices whose products are used in a range of interventional medical specialties, including interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, endoscopy, oncology, urology and gynecology.

Boston Scientific is well known for the development of the Taxus Stent, a drug-coated stent which is used to open clogged arteries.

Boston Scientific's main competitors are Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic. The company recently acquired longtime competitor Guidant for approximately $28 billion. The former Guidant was split between BSC and Abbott Laboratories^[1].

External links

• Boston Scientific official web site.
• Yahoo! - Boston Scientific Corporation Company Profile.
• Boston Scientific stock performance chart from GStock
• "Gamble wins big at Boston Scientific", boston.com.