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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 (May 18, 2005) -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE:BDX) announced today that it will conduct a live webcast of its third fiscal quarter 2005 earnings conference call on Friday, July 22, 2005 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 Friday, July 29, 2005. 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, 2004, BD reported total revenues of $4.935 billion. ###
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