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Sep 17, 2024
By Kevin Nelson, BD Chief Procurement Officer BD recently hosted our first-ever Supplier Climate Action summit, designed to help support key suppliers as they set science-based greenhouse gas...
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Jul 10, 2024
At BD, every decision we make and action we take is driven by our Purpose of advancing the world of health. For the last 125+ years, we’ve been working to help make the world a healthier, more...
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May 6, 2024
Blood collection is a vital procedure in clinical diagnostics and research, as it provides valuable information about the health status and biomarkers of patients and participants. However, blood...
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Apr 22, 2024
By Maureen Mazurek, Chief Sustainability and EHS Officer Climate change is considered one of the greatest threats to human health1. From water scarcity and contamination to reduction in crop...
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Feb 21, 2024
Celebrating 5 Years of Excellence
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Jan 29, 2024
Care is becoming more personalized. Innovation cycles are growing shorter and shorter. Healthcare companies are increasingly looking for ways to eliminate waste and complexity. These are only a...
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Jan 26, 2024
More than 340,000 women lose their lives to cervical cancer each year, yet the global community has the capabilities to eliminate this cancer within our lifetime. While significant access barriers...
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Jan 23, 2024
Key insights from the 2023 Howe Lifetime Achievement Award winners Each year, we’re proud to recognize individuals whose achievements in technology and innovation significantly contribute to...
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Dec 8, 2023
Authored by Caitlin Asjes, Senior Director of BD Global Public Health For more than 125 years, BD has been creating new technologies that improve the quality of life for billions of patients...
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Nov 17, 2023
By Kalvin Yu and Diane Flayhart As we recognize World AMR Awareness Week, we reflect on how the globe has recognized and reacted to public health crises and how these crises have impacted...
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Nov 8, 2023
How much talent and innovation are unrealized due to lack of opportunity? As one research paper examining inventorship put it, “there are many ‘lost Einsteins’—individuals who would have...
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Nov 8, 2023
It’s World Quality Week, a time to celebrate our commitment to quality products and services and raise awareness of the importance of the quality profession.
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Oct 19, 2023
Imagine you or your loved one having the ability to receive care from the comfort of home. As healthcare trends continue to shift, the “hospital-at-home" vision is becoming a reality. In a...
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Oct 19, 2023
Denise Russell Fleming, Chief Information Officer and Executive Vice President of Technology & Global Services for BD As disciplines, cybersecurity and information technology (IT) are built on the...
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Oct 5, 2023
Diverse representation has long been a core value of BD. We believe that having associates of all genders, backgrounds, skills, and perspectives drive infinite possibilities to advancing the world...
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Sep 21, 2023
“Your child may have cancer.” These are words that no parent or caregiver wants to hear. In Mexico, cancer is the most common cause of death due to disease in patients aged 5 to 14 years oldi....
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Sep 20, 2023
One of the most prominent issues today for pharmacies is staff burnout. This trend was accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, as pharmacists were being asked to do more and respond to critical...
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Sep 19, 2023
“Cervical cancer is not only a health concern, but also a barrier to women’s ability to pursue an education, advance their economic opportunities and support the well-being of their...
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Sep 18, 2023
On World Patient Safety Day (September 17), the World Health Organization is bringing awareness to the role of the patient with this year’s theme, “Engaging Patients for Patient Safety.” BD...
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Sep 13, 2023
September marks Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) Awareness Month. PAD is the narrowing of the arteries that carry blood away from the heart to other parts of the body. The most common type is...
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Aug 10, 2023
“Generational impact, transformational and life-changing” – these are some of the words used to describe BD’s Volunteer Service Trip program. BD’s Volunteer Service Trip, which is...
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Aug 9, 2023
At BD, cybersecurity is one way we honor our commitment to doing what is right.
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Aug 8, 2023
By Kalvin Yu, MD, FIDSA, Vice President of North America Medical Affairs The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the most broadly...
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Jul 27, 2023
BD CSO Joe Smith challenges the status quo of vascular access today
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Jul 20, 2023
By Shana Neal, EVP & Chief People Officer In our recently released Fiscal Year 2022 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, we detail the progress we’ve made toward our 2030+ ESG...
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Jul 12, 2023
BD Earns Top Score and Recognition as Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion
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May 23, 2023
BD took center stage opening the first day of Device Talks Boston, with Chairman, President and CEO Tom Polen sharing perspective on BD’s progress, the shared Purpose that unites our 75,000+...
- May 10, 2023
By: Adrienne Brott, SVP, Quality, Interventional Segment & Central Inspire Quality is our multi-year journey towards best-in-class healthcare quality. For BD, this means a full redesign,...
- Apr 28, 2023
Aruna Ayer, PhD, Sr. Director of Single-Cell Multiomics Over the past decades, scientists have been interested in unraveling the complexity of cells, the building blocks of life. The human body is...
- Apr 28, 2023
Ben Redgell, Social Media Manager and Co-Leader, OPEN ARG At BD, we firmly believe that to deliver on our Purpose we must foster an environment centered around inclusion and diversity for our...
- Apr 26, 2023
By: Fenan Solomon, Director, Market Access & Payment Policy, BD Integrated Diagnostics Solutions April marks National Bacterial Vaginosis (BV) Month. BV is the most common infectious cause of...
- Apr 21, 2023
Being a part of initiative driven by like-minded partners allows BD to move toward reducing its environmental footprint in collaboration with value chain partners
- Mar 28, 2023
By Kalvin Yu, MD, FIDSA, Vice President of Medical Affairs for North America Clinical studies have reported that hospital onset bacteremia (HOB) and false-positive blood cultures can have...
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Mar 16, 2023
Gunther Lenz, Vice President of Software R&D, BD When people think of the life sciences, they traditionally think of the instruments, assays and reagents found in hospitals and labs. But there’s...
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Feb 21, 2023
Tom Polen on HLTH Matters Podcast
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Feb 15, 2023
By Joe Smith, SVP and Chief Scientific Officer “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care” – I first heard this early in my training as a physician-scientist and have...
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Feb 13, 2023
Both companies are working to help reduce environmental impact of the BD syringe portfolio in health care facilities By Chee Lum, vice president and general manager of Injection Systems at BD Over...
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Feb 10, 2023
For more than a decade, BD, PEPFAR and the CDC worked to help strengthen laboratory systems and fight HIV and TB in sub-Saharan Africa and India through the Labs for Life partnership. The Labs for...
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Feb 8, 2023
BD has been named Best in KLAS for 2023 in the categories for automated dispensing cabinets and IV workflow management. For the fourth year in a row, BD Pyxis™ MedStation™ ES earned the top...
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Feb 3, 2023
By Kalvin Yu, MD, FIDSA, Vice President of U.S. Medical Affairs and Vikas Gupta, Pharm.D., Director of Medical Affairs In our ninth weekly snapshot of viral infections across the U.S, we present...
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Feb 2, 2023
Sometimes innovation means delivering transformative new-to-world technology to healthcare providers and patients. Innovation can also mean enhancing the products and solutions our customers...
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Jan 25, 2023
Rob Suárez, HCISPP, Chief Information Security Officer for BD The health care industry continues to face escalating cybersecurity threats1. To protect our customers and patients, BD is on a...
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Jan 23, 2023
How is BD advancing the world of health? From rethinking healthcare settings to implementing robotics and automation in hospitals, pharmacies and labs, we are leading the way in the future of...
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Jan 19, 2023
By Kalvin Yu, MD, FIDSA, Vice President of U.S. Medical Affairs and Vikas Gupta, Pharm.D., Director of Medical Affairs In our eighth weekly snapshot of viral infections across the U.S, we present...
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Jan 5, 2023
By Kalvin Yu, MD, FIDSA, Vice President of U.S. Medical Affairs and Vikas Gupta, Pharm.D., Director of Medical Affairs In our seventh weekly snapshot of viral infections across the U.S, we present...
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Dec 21, 2022
By Kalvin Yu, MD, FIDSA, Vice President of U.S. Medical Affairs and Vikas Gupta, Pharm.D., Director of Medical Affairs In our sixth weekly snapshot of viral infections across the U.S, we present...
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Dec 19, 2022
While the healthcare industry continues to face issues with burnout and increased turnover rates among clinicians, BD Chairman, CEO and President Tom Polen believes technology can play a major...
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Dec 8, 2022
By Kalvin Yu, MD, FIDSA, Vice President of U.S. Medical Affairs and Vikas Gupta, Pharm.D., Director of Medical Affairs Our fifth weekly snapshot of viral infections across the U.S. presents data...
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