Abbott Laboratories is a medical device and healthcare company with headquarters in the Abbott Park Business Center in Lake Bluff, Illinois, United States. It is a broad-based healthcare company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceutical, nutritional, diagnostic and hospital-related products worldwide. Its portfolio of technologies spans healthcare, with businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Its 107,000 employees serve people in more than 160 countries.