Helping all people live healthy lives
2009 Annual Report

BD Diagnostics

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.

Customers Served

• Hospitals, laboratories and clinics
• Reference laboratories
• Blood banks
• Healthcare workers
• Public health agencies
• Physicians' office practices
• Industrial and food microbiology laboratories

Products

• 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

 

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