Becton, Dickinson and Company, a medical technology company, manufactures and sells medical devices, instruments, and reagents worldwide. Its BD Medical segment offers medical devices needles, syringes, and intravenous catheters for medication delivery; syringes and pen needles; prefillable drug delivery devices provided to pharmaceutical companies and sold to end-users as drug/device combinations; surgical blades and regional anesthesia needles; critical care monitoring devices; ophthalmic surgical instruments; sharps disposal containers; and home healthcare products, such as elastic bandages. The company’s BD Diagnostics segment provides products for the safe collection and transport of diagnostic specimens and instruments for analysis, including preanalytical and diagnostic systems comprising integrated systems for specimen collection, a line of safety-engineered blood collection products and systems, plated media, automated blood culturing systems, molecular testing systems for sexually transmitted diseases and healthcare-associated infections, microorganism identification and drug susceptibility systems, liquid-based cytology systems for cervical cancer screening, and rapid diagnostic assays. Its BD Biosciences segment offers fluorescence activated cell sorters and analyzers, cell imaging systems, monoclonal antibodies and kits for performing cell analysis, reagent systems for life sciences research, tools to aid in drug discovery and growth of living cells and tissue, cell culture media supplements for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and diagnostic assays. Becton, Dickinson and Company serves hospitals, laboratories, clinics, consumers and retail pharmacies, public health agencies, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, healthcare workers, blood banks, patients, physicians’ office practices, and academic and government institutions. The company was founded in 1897 and is headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.