Frost & Sullivan Honors BD With Market Leadership Award.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2003 Frost & Sullivan today announced BD as recipient of the 2003 Market Leadership Award for achieving a leadership position in several medical safety device categories. BD has a long history in safety-engineered devices and its businesses have undergone major product re-designs over the past 20 years to continually reflect safety issues and concerns in the healthcare arena. Frost & Sullivan's Market Leadership Award is presented each year to the company that exhibits expertise in identifying market challenges, drivers and restraints, as well as developing market engineering strategies and methods for addressing these dynamics. BD has demonstrated tremendous market astuteness by introducing an array of new safety-engineered devices, which is one of the main driving forces behind the company's success. In 2002, BD achieved leadership positions in numerous categories such as needles and syringes, safety IV catheters, safety scalpels and safety lancets. In its quest to maintain market leadership, BD has expanded its safety portfolio by launching the BD Vacutainer(tm) Push Button Blood Collection Set in June 2003. The new product has an innovative design in which the needle retracts into the device with a simple push of a button. The company also launched the BD Integra(tm) Syringe syringe /sy·ringe/ (si-rinj´) (sir´inj) an instrument for injecting liquids into or withdrawing them from any vessel or cavity. with Retracting PrecisionGlide(tm) Needle in 2002, the first and only retracting needle syringe offering an interchangeable in·ter·change·a·ble adj. That can be interchanged: interchangeable items of clothing; interchangeable automotive parts. in needle, as well as the BD Eclipse(tm) injection needle with single-handed activation activation /ac·ti·va·tion/ (ak?ti-va´shun) 1. the act or process of rendering active. 2. the transformation of a proenzyme into an active enzyme by the action of a kinase or another enzyme. 3. . These new products, along with BD's other safety devices such as the BD SafetyGlide(tm) Syringe for Insulin, TB and Allergy allergy, hypersensitive reaction of the body tissues of certain individuals to certain substances that, in similar amounts and circumstances, are innocuous to other persons. Allergens, or allergy-causing substances, can be airborne substances (e.g. , BD SafetyGlide(tm) Shielding Hypodermic Needle hypodermic needle n. 1. A hollow needle used with a hypodermic syringe. 2. A hypodermic syringe including the needle. and BD Safety-Lok(tm) Syringes, continue to demonstrate the company's commitment to healthcare worker and patient safety. Pioneering safety devices since 1989, BD has spent hundreds of million of dollars in developing safety-engineered devices and services. This includes installation of an entirely new production process for safety-engineered devices, clinical training, education programs and unrestricted grants to research institutions. BD is also focusing on compiling com·pile tr.v. com·piled, com·pil·ing, com·piles 1. To gather into a single book. 2. To put together or compose from materials gathered from several sources: epidemiological epidemiological emanating from or pertaining to epidemiology. epidemiological associations the associative relationships between the frequency of occurrence of a disease and its determinants, its predisposing and precipitating data to indicate the impact of using safety-engineered devices. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Frost & Sullivan's analysis in the study "U.S. Safety Sharps and Blood Collection (A455-54)," "BD's constant pursuit of excellence and its ability to identify end-user requirements has set it apart from competitors. Currently, BD holds 166 U.S. patents, more than any other safety-engineered device companies, and has a very broad range of safety products in sample collection, infusion therapy, injection systems, surgery and sharps disposal. This is likely to ensure its continued success." About BD BD is a medical technology company that serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, medical industry and the general public. BD manufactures and sells a broad range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. For the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2002, BD reported total revenues of $4.033 billion. About Frost & Sullivan Founded in 1961, Frost & Sullivan is recognized as a global leader in growth consulting. Frost & Sullivan Awards A Sullivan Award may refer to:
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