Abbott Laboratories, founded in 1900 and based in Abbott Park, Illinois, is a Fortune 500 company that provides clients worldwide with pharmaceutical, medical, and nutritional products. The firm develops renal care, pain care, oncology, metabolic, cardiovascular, anti-infective, and other pharmaceuticals. It also provides customers with diabetes care, diagnostic, nutrition, vascular, hematology, and animal health medical products. The firm is known for its HUMIRA (R), Azmacort, Niaspan, Biaxin, Depakote, Norvir, Tricor, and Meridia pharmaceuticals. Medical products include Abbott PRISM, Cell-Dyn, Emboshield, PathFinder, IMx, PathVysion, and FreeStyle. Nutritional brands include Ensure, Glucerna, Nutripals, Isomil, PediaSure, Similac, and Pedialyte. Abbott Laboratories has developed anesthesia products since the 1930s and is known for the Nembutal, Pentothal, and Ultane brands. HUMIRA is a human monoclonal antibody used to treat rheumatoid arthritis. Meridia is an adult obesity management medication. Similac, introduced in 1959, is an infant nutritional product. Animal health brands include PropoFlo, AlphaTRAK, and CliniCare. Abbott Laboratories acquired i-STAT Corporation in 2004, supporting expansion into the point-of-care device market. The firm provides physicians with handheld patient analysis products. The Precision PCx and PrecisionWeb systems optimize glucose measurement processes. Abbott Laboratories acquired Spinal Concepts in 2003 and Spine Next SA in 2004, supporting expansion into the spinal device market. Products include the PathFinder pedicle screw and Wallis