Abbott Vascular: The Now-Ready-For-Prime-Time Player

Four years ago, lured into a mainstream cardiovascular business by the promise of drug-eluting stents, Abbott set about revamping its medical products business in an effort to create a device business that would rival its pharmaceutical business in financial returns. What was at first a niche strategy, aimed at bringing small, but interesting technologies to interventionalists, has become a more broad-based play that, company officials hope, will place them among the leaders in vascular devices.

by David Cassak

For the most part, medical device companies like stealth—they like to move quickly and quietly beneath the radar screen of...

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