but their bottles can't be used in the Bactec system, and hospitals can't adopt an entirely new blood culture system on short notice. While we won't have reliable data for some time on how ...

Medical device company Becton Dickinson (BD) may be nearing the end of a shortage of plastic bottles ... short run, they are ...

In July, federal health officials warned hospitals that there would be a critical shortage of blood culture bottles that ... but that the design of the bottle’s neck and the associated ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a health advisory on a shortage of plastic Becton Dickinson and Co. Bactec blood culture ... of the bottle's neck and associated ...

Hospitals across the country are facing a severe shortage of supplies of blood culture bottles, critical tools for diagnosing serious and sometimes life-threatening bloodstream infections.

Let us know! Hospitals in the Philadelphia region are dealing with the fallout from a shortage of blood culture bottles. A few weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease ...

BioMerieux produces 100 million blood culture bottles a year, about half the world’s vials used by hospitals and labs to detect patients’ blood samples for bacterial infections. Takaaki Iwabu ...

Hospitals in the Philadelphia region are dealing with the fallout from a shortage of blood culture bottles. A few weeks ago, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control ...