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Helping all people live healthy lives
2009 Annual Report |
BD
Diagnostics is a leading provider of products for the safe collection
and transport of diagnostics specimens, as well as instruments and reagent
systems to accurately detect a broad range of infectious diseases,
healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and cancers. The BD Diagnostics
segment focuses on improving health outcomes for patients by providing
laboratories with solutions that improve quality, enhance laboratory system
productivity and inform medical decisions.
• Hospitals, laboratories and clinics
• Reference laboratories
• Blood banks
• Healthcare workers
• Public health agencies
• Physicians' office practices
• Industrial and food microbiology laboratories
• Integrated systems for specimen collection
• Safety-engineered blood collection products and systems
• Automated blood culturing systems
• Molecular testing systems for sexually transmitted diseases and HAIs
• Microorganism identification and drug susceptibility systems
• Liquid-based cytology systems for cervical cancer screening
• Rapid diagnostic assays
• Plated media