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BD Partners with Healthians to Increase Access to Cervical Cancer Screening in India
12 Nov 2024
BD and Healthians aim to provide women with increased access to HPV testing through self-collection of samples in the privacy of their homes.

BD India’s concerted commitment towards creating awareness about Venous diseases
12 Nov 2024
Through the Venous Summit, BD brings a focus on Venous ailments and helps establish a uniform quality care protocol to enable better patient care.

BD India Launches Ultratouch™ Blood Collection Device
12 Nov 2024
BD Vacutainer® UltraTouch™ is built with advanced technology that will enable a better patient experience owing to single prick success and reduced pain during blood collection.

BD Named a Best Employer for Excellence in Employee Well-Being
12 Nov 2024
BD today announced that it will receive the Business Group on Health "Best Employers: Excellence in Health & Well-being Award" for its commitment to advancing employee well-being through com

BD India’s concerted commitment towards creating awareness on Cervical Cancer
12 Nov 2024
To create awareness and enable knowledge-sharing around cervical cancer screening, especially the benefits of early screening with liquid-based cytology and human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA testing, BD

BD India Installs First Spectral Cell Sorter With High-Speed Cell Imaging | BD
12 Nov 2024
BD FACSDiscover™ S8 Cell Sorter will enable scientists in India to gain new and more accurate insights on cell populations and characteristics in a streamlined experimental workflow.

Vulnerability disclosures help protect patients and build trust
12 Nov 2024
At BD, cybersecurity is one way we honor our commitment to doing what is right. We recognize that patients receive medical care at some of the most critical and vulnerable moments in their lives.

BD India’s Pledge for Safety initiative launched with a ‘Safety Flame’ march from Ruby Hall Clinic
12 Nov 2024
To enhance awareness around the importance of safety protocols, practices, and technologies to deliver optimum Patient and clinical outcomes as well as enable knowledge-sharing of best practices aroun

BD-Sehgal Path Lab CoE
12 Nov 2024
BD Life Sciences-Biosciences, a segment of BD (Becton, Dickinson, and Company), in collaboration with Sehgal Path Lab recently launched its Center of Excellence (CoE) in Flow Cytometry for clinical research in Mumbai.

Giving HOPE
12 Nov 2024
Aligned with the Government of India’s Skill Development Mission to strengthen existing skills and make the youth self-reliant, Becton Dickinson (BD) India, in partnership with the HOPE Foundation is
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?

German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.

Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.

What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?

Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.

Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.

Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.

How Quaker Oats grabbed customers’ attention
By Kiron Kasbekar | 07 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats, the American food products giant that was created in 1901 through the merger of many older oat millers, and was acquired by a bigger foods giant, Pepsi, in 2001, has been an innovative company. One example of its innovativeness shows in its packaging – the cereal box it launched in 1915.

Company story – Cunard Line
By Kiron Kasbekar | 12 Jan 2024
The Cunard Line started its life in Glasgow in 1839 as the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company when Samuel Cunard was awarded the first British transatlantic steamship mail contract.