History of Medicine
Guide to Collections Relating to the History of Artificial Internal Organs
ABIOMED
Arrow International
Baxter Health Care Corporation
Boston Scientific Corporation SCIMED
Datascope Corporation
L-VAD Technology Inc.
McGowan Center for Artificial Organs
Medtronic Inc.
Senko Medical Instrument Mfg. Co., Ltd.
Terumo Cardiovascular Systems
Terumo R&D Center
Texas Heart Institute
Thoratec Laboratories Corporation
University of Michigan Extracorporeal Circulation Laboratory
University of Ottowa Heart Institute
University of Sao Paulo, Heart Institute, Bioengineering Division
University of Utah, Bioengineering Department
Boston Scientific Corporation SCIMED
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David Matteson, Industrial Relations
Boston Scientific is the largest medical device company in the world dedicated to minimally-invasive therapy, and employs approximately 13,500 people worldwide. The Company's products include more than 10,000 catalog items in over 50 categories, and are defined as vascular or non-vascular depending on the system and procedure in which a product is intended to be used.
Collections
Boston Scientific's history began in the late 1960s when the Company's co-founder, John Abele, acquired an equity interest in Medi-tech, Inc., a development company. Medi-tech's initial products, a family of steerable catheters, were introduced in 1969. They were used in some of the first less-invasive procedures performed, and versions of these catheters are still being sold today. In 1979, John Abele joined Pete Nicholas to form Boston Scientific Corporation for the purpose of acquiring Medi-tech, Inc. The acquisition began a period of active, focused marketing, new product development, and organizational growth.