Baxter is an American multinational healthcare company with headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois. The company primarily focuses on products to treat kidney disease, and other chronic and acute medical conditions. The company had 2017 sales of $10.6 billion, across two businesses: Bioscience and Medical Products. Baxter's Bioscience business produces recombinant and blood plasma proteins to treat haemophilia and other bleeding disorders; plasma-based therapies to treat immune deficiencies and other chronic and acute bloodrelated conditions; products for regenerative medicine, and vaccines. Baxter's Medical Products business produces intravenous products and other products used in the delivery of fluids and drugs to patients; inhalational anaesthetics; contract manufacturing services; and products to treat endstage kidney disease, or irreversible kidney failure, including products for peritoneal dialysis and haemodialysis.