A device for subdermal insertion of solid media may include a front body defining a window. A device may include a rear body selectively coupled to the front body. A device may include a needle hub received within the front body and the rear body and movable between an extended position and a retracted position. A device may include a trocar coupled to the needle hub and including a payload retention feature.

The present invention is directed to delivery device for deploying an insertable into an orifice guided by digit, the delivery device comprising: insertable orientation means adapted to orient the insertable in a deployment orientation and digit orientation means adapted to orient a portion of at least one digit in a navigation orientation, the insertable orientation means and the digit orientation means adjoined across a partition with a partition cross-section, and the deployment orientation and the navigation orientation arranged for digit guided deployment of the insertable into the orifice. Also disclosed is a method of deploying an insertable into an orifice guided by digit, using the delivery device of the present invention. The delivery device and method of the present invention are well suited to deploying tampons into the vaginal cavity.

Implantable drug delivery devices include a housing having a closed drug reservoir lumen bounded by a first wall structure and a hydrophilic second wall structure, and a drug contained in the drug reservoir lumen, wherein the first wall structure is impermeable to the drug and the second wall structure is permeable to the drug. Methods of providing controlled release of drug to a patient include deploying a drug delivery device in the patient releasing a drug from the drug reservoir lumen via diffusion through the second wall structure.

A medicinal applicator that is defined by a base, a medicinal cream receiving port in the base, and a shaft extending along a shaft axis from the base and terminating at an applicator tip is useful in smearing medicinal cream in a person's colon. There is at least one exit aperture located along a portion of the shaft through which the cream can exit. The medicinal applicator has an unobstructed pathway is in communication with the receiving port and the exit aperture in addition to a stop plate that extends radially from the base delineating the base from the shaft. The shaft's outer shape is defined by an oblong cross section that is uniform along the entire length of the shaft.

Various applicators are disclosed. The applicators may be used to deposit medication inside a vagina. In one embodiment, the applicator includes a tube and a bulb. The tube has a stiff cylindrical body having one end connected to the bulb and a flexible membrane arranged at a another end of the tube. The applicator is generally airtight and the orientation of the flexible membrane is controlled by squeezing the bulb. When the bulb is squeezed the flexible membrane inverts to outside the body when the bulb is released the flexible membrane and returns to inside the body.

Disclosed are suppositories and methods of use thereof for lubricating an internal surface of a body cavity. A suppository may be composed of a shell defining an internal volume and a lubricant at least partially occupying the internal volume. The shell may be prone to degrade in that a rate of degradation thereof may increase when the suppository is in a certain condition, such as being exposed to an external environment or being positioned inside the body cavity. Once sufficient degradation of the shell has occurred while the suppository is inside the body cavity, the lubricant may be released and applied onto an internal surface of the body cavity. Medical procedures or pleasurable activities related to the body cavity may then be performed which rely upon or are aided in part by the lubrication of the body cavity's internal surface.

A conformable surgical tampon for disposition into and removal from an anatomical cavity of a mammalian patient by a doctor to absorb and collect bodily fluids. The tampon comprises an absorbent chassis material and a plurality of spaced apart positioning strings attached to the chassis. The spaced apart positioning strings are operative to selectively position the conformable nasopharyngeal tampon within an anatomical cavity of a patient responsive to manipulation of a positioning string by a surgeon. The tampon is particularly suited for nasopharyngeal surgery.

A delivery device for deploying an insertable into an orifice guided by a digit includes: an insertable orientation means having a first longitudinal axis and a base portion, the insertable orientation means adapted to load an insertable positioned in a deployment orientation, and a skirt member extending from adjacent the insertable orientation means and having a skirt length and comprising opposing digit contacting and orifice contacting surfaces, wherein the skirt member is adapted to be movable substantially parallel to the first longitudinal axis and along the skirt length, between: an insertable surrounding configuration, wherein an orifice contacting length of the orifice contacting surface substantially faces the insertable orientation means and any loaded insertable; and a digit surrounding configuration, wherein the orifice contacting length of the orifice contacting surface substantially faces away from the insertable orientation means and any loaded insertable.