The corporate headquarters of the American healthcare giant Baxter International Inc. is located in Deerfield, Illinois. The company's main areas of concentration include chronic and urgent medical issues, including kidney illness. Sales for the company's two segments, BioScience and Medical Products, totaled $10.6 billion in 2017.
Recombinant and blood plasma proteins, plasma-based therapies, products for regenerative medicine, and vaccines are all produced by Baxter's BioScience division to treat hemophilia and other bleeding disorders, immunological deficiencies, and other chronic and acute blood-related illnesses. Inhalational anaesthetics, contract manufacturing services, and products to treat end-stage kidney disease, or irreversible kidney failure, including products for peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis, are all produced by Baxter's Medical Products business. It also produces intravenous products and other products used in the delivery of fluids and medications to patients.