The port is a good option if you need treatments regularly or over a long period of time. Implantable ports are about the size of a quarter. They have a round, oval, or triangle shape. You can see ...

Going on tour can be brutal on the mind and body, but going on tour while being chronically ill can make things that much ...

Also called an implanted port, port-a-cath or medi-port, a chemo port has two parts: the port and the catheter. The port is a quarter-sized plastic or metal disc. (If you have the metal kind ...

Care teams often implant a chemo port into patients with cancer to provide easy access for blood draws and to deliver treatments such as chemotherapy and antibiotics. Here, as part of its Heal at Home ...

The ranibizumab ocular implant (Susvimo) reduces the need for frequent intravitreal anti-VEGF injections in patients with ...

The refillable eye implants continuously deliver a customised formulation of a drug over a period of several months. Read ...