U.S. District Judge David Campbell of the District of Arizona is overseeing the trial, which began on April 21 and is set to ...

Retrospective studies suggest that it may be safe to extend the maintenance flushing interval of implanted ports from once every month, as recommended by the manufacturer, to once every 3 months, but ...

Global medical technology company C.R. Bard says it wasn’t responsible for plaintiff Robert Cook’s port catheter infection ...

A chemotherapy (chemo) port is a small device implanted just under the skin in the chest. It’s usually placed on the right side, near a major vein called the vena cava, and is used to administer ...

C.R. Bard developed an antimicrobial port catheter intended to reduce infection rates but never received FDA clearance.

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 ...

FDA has issued a Class 1 recall of an implantable plastic port from Smiths Medical. Some ProPort devices have a manufacturing defect that may cause the plastic port housing and port reservoir to ...