Boston Scientific Corporation, doing business as Boston Scientific, is a 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 primarily known for the development of the Taxus Stent, a drug-eluting stent which is used to open clogged arteries.
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)
Traded as: NYSE: BSX; S&P 500 component
Industry: Medical device
Founded: 1979
Founders: John Abele, Founder & Director Emeritus; Peter Nicholas, Founder & Director Emeritus
Headquarters: Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
Website: www.bostonscientific.com