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Boston Scientific Corporation
Company type
Public
Traded as
NYSE: BSX
S&P 500 component
ISIN
US1011371077
Industry
Medical device
Founded
June 29, 1979; 44 years ago (1979-06-29) in Watertown, Massachusetts
Founders
John Abele
Peter Nicholas
Headquarters
Marlborough, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people
Michael F. Mahoney (Chairman and CEO)
Daniel Brennan (CFO)
Revenue
US$14.24 billion (2023)[1]
Operating income
US$2.343 billion (2023)[1]
Net income
US$1.592 billion (2023)[1]
Total assets
US$35.14 billion (2023)[1]
Total equity
US$19.28 billion (2023)[1]
Number of employees
c. 48,000[1] (2023)
Website
bostonscientific.com
42°21′37.3″N71°33′32.6″W / 42.360361°N 71.559056°W / 42.360361; -71.559056Boston Scientific Corporation (BSC), headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts and incorporated in Delaware,[2] is a biomedical/biotechnology engineering firm and multinational manufacturer of medical devices used in interventional medical specialties, including interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, peripheral interventions, neuromodulation, neurovascular intervention, electrophysiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, endoscopy, oncology, urology and gynecology. Boston Scientific is widely known for the development of the Taxus Stent, a drug-eluting stent which is used to open clogged arteries.[3] With the full acquisition of Cameron Health in June 2012, the company also became notable for offering a minimally invasive implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) which they call the EMBLEM subcutaneous implantable defibrillator (S-ICD).[4][5]
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boston has emerged as the largest biotechnology hub in the world. The city is also a national leader in scientific research, law, medicine...
Guidant Corporation, part of BostonScientific and Abbott Labs, designs and manufactures artificial cardiac pacemakers, implantable cardioverter-defibrillators...
The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century...
Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston, the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the...
products were marketed through American Medical Systems (AMS; currently BostonScientific), with which Brantley Scott was associated. Many device updates have...
rely on empirical evidence. Applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as in engineering and medicine...
Peter Nicholas looked to grow the successful business and established BostonScientific as a holding company to purchase Medi-Tech. Bentov was the holder...
Diabetes Care.[additional citation(s) needed] In 2006, Abbott assisted BostonScientific in its purchase of Guidant Corporation purchasing the vascular device...
in the boards of numerous private and public companies, including BostonScientific, Symantec, Veritas Technologies, Seagate Technology, Business Objects...
Global Partners, Thermo Fisher Scientific, State Street Corporation, Biogen, Eversource Energy, and BostonScientific. CNBC's list of "Top States for...
was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until it was acquired by BostonScientific in August 2019. In 1948, the National Research Development Corporation...
many Americans desired big iceboxes, some companies, such as the BostonScientific Refrigerator Company, introduced ones which could hold up to 50 lbs...
known as the Boston Molasses Disaster, was a disaster that occurred on Wednesday, January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts...
2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered Coloplast and BostonScientific to halt the sale and distribution of transvaginal surgical mesh implants...
Boston University (BU) is an American private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodists with...
"LittleDog by Boston Dynamics". RobotShop. April 20, 2020. Greenemeier, Larry "DARPA Pushes Machine Learning with Legged LittleDog Robot", Scientific American...
evaluated before release and has been designed to minimise regurgitation. BostonScientific has since retired the device as of January 11, 2021. This was primarily...
October 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2017. "News Releases | BostonScientific". BostonScientific. Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. Retrieved...
The Boston Terrier is a breed of dog originating in the United States of America. This "American Gentleman" was accepted in 1893 by the American Kennel...
the city, as well as scientific analysis of the initial incident. The slide was situated in the $95 million plaza outside Boston City Hall designed by...
Global Information
US$14.24 billion (2023)[1]