BD-Becton Dickinson

SPARKS, Md., April 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), announced today an international distributor agreement with Bruker Daltonics Inc. to sell and provide front-line technical support for the co-labeled BD(TM) Bruker MALDI Biotyper(TM) System. Microbial identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing ... read more

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BD Rx Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of leading global medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the second drug to be offered in the recently launched BD Simplist(TM) ... read more

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BD Medical, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today the commercial launch of a new passive needle guard technology, BD UltraSafe PLUS(TM). The BD UltraSafe PLUS(TM) Passive ... read more

BALTIMORE, April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BD Diagnostics, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced it received FDA clearance to market the BD MAX(TM) Cdiff Assay in the United States. The assay is performed on ... read more

BALTIMORE, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, demonstrates how treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics can impact the ability to detect bacteria in blood samples from potentially septic patients. It also highlights the importance of antimicrobial removal systems in contemporary blood culture media ... read more

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BD Medical, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the BD PhaSeal(TM) Closed System Transfer Device (CSTD) ... read more

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study, published online today by the peer-reviewed journal American Health & Drug Benefits, reveals the significant national burden that harmful medication errors, also called preventable adverse drug events (ADEs), associated with injectable medications have on hospitals, patients, and our healthcare ... read more