Contact: Patricia A.  Spinella
Investor Relations
(201) 847-5453
Email: patricia_spinella@bd.com

Colleen T.  White
Corporate Communications
(201) 847-5369
Email: colleen_white@bd.com

Franklin Lakes, NJ (April 08, 2004) -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX) announced today that it will conduct a live webcast of its second fiscal quarter 2004 earnings conference call on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. (ET). BD will issue a press release detailing the quarter's earnings earlier that morning.

The webcast of the conference call will be accessible through BD's website at www.bd.com/investors and will be available for replay through April 29, 2004.

BD is a medical technology company that serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, 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 September 30, 2003, BD reported total revenues of $4.528 billion.