Becton Dickinson and Company

Becton Dickinson and Company develops manufactures and sells medical supplies devices laboratory equipment and diagnostic products for healthcare institutions physicians life science researchers clinical laboratories pharmaceutical industry and the general public worldwide. The company's BD Medical segment provides peripheral intravenous (IV) and advanced peripheral catheters central lines acute dialysis catheters vascular care and preparation products needle-free IV connectors and extensions sets closed-system drug transfer devices hazardous drug detections hypodermic syringes and needles anesthesia needles and trays enteral syringes and sharps disposal systems; IV medication and infusion therapy delivery systems medication compounding workflow systems automated medication dispensing and supply management systems and medication inventory optimization and tracking systems; syringes pen needles and other products for diabetes; and prefillable drug delivery systems. Its BD Life Sciences segment offers specimen and blood collection products; automated blood and tuberculosis culturing molecular testing microorganism identification and drug susceptibility and liquid-based cytology systems as well as rapid diagnostic assays microbiology laboratory automation products and plated media products; and fluorescence-activated cell sorters and analyzers antibodies and kits reagent systems and solutions for single-cell gene expression analysis as well as clinical oncology immunological and transplantation diagnostic/monitoring reagents and analyzers. The company's BD Interventional segment provides hernia and soft tissue repair biological and bioresorbable grafts biosurgery and other surgical products; surgical infection prevention surgical and laparoscopic instrumentation products; peripheral intervention products; and urology and critical care products. The company was founded in 1897 and is based in Franklin Lakes New Jersey.