Victor E. Battles, M.D.

The Personal Health Record -- A Potential Hedge against Health Care Inflation

Utilizing a personal health record can decrease healthcare expenses because many of the dollars spent in healthcare go toward the generation of information necessary to diagnose and appropriately treat. With passage of the healthcare reform act, which wi... Read >

The Personal Health Record -- Reasons It Could Reduce Your Healthcare Costs

Utilizing a personal health record can reduce healthcare expenses because many of the dollars spent in healthcare go toward the acquisition of data needed to make diagnoses and provide appropriate treatment. With passage of HR. 3590, which will expand he... Read >

Quit Smoking -- A Self-Help Discourse

There are actions you can take while planning and beginning a quit smoking program which will increase the likelihood of your attempt being successful. First of all you must develop a strong desire to quit. Develop or strengthen that desire by reviewin... Read >

The Health Hazards Associated with Exposure to Secondhand Smoke

The harmful health effects of exposure to secondhand smoke are well recognized by experts in the healthcare field. Secondhand smoke is that environmental tobacco smoke resulting from burning tobacco. There are two forms of secondhand or passive smoke, mai... Read >

Home Delivered Meals - A Weight-Loss Meal Plan to Conquer Temptation

Because two of the greatest obstacles to achieving weight loss are overcoming the temptation to consume excessive calories and maintaining a nutritionally balanced diet, a weight-loss meal plan which consists of home delivered meals might be key to the su... Read >

A Weight Loss Meal Plan to Overcome Temptation

Because two of the chief obstacles to achieving weight loss are overcoming the temptation to consume excessive calories and maintaining a nutritionally balanced diet, a weight-loss meal plan which consists of home delivered meals might make your weight lo... Read >

Weight Loss Basics -- A Scientific Prospective For the Laity

In order to achieve weight loss calorie metabolism must exceed calorie intake. Metabolism is a complex series of chemical actions in the body necessary to maintain life involving the utilization of energy from food known as calories. Simplistically speaki... Read >

Tips for Using Instant and Intermediate Benefits as Motivation to Quit Smoking

The gratification that can be derived from objective or measurable and subjective or observable immediate and intermediate health benefits of smoking cessation can serve as motivation to quit smoking without experiencing relapse. Instant benefits of qu... Read >

The Rational of Using a Nicotine Test Kit to Help Quit Smoking

A home nicotine test kit which gives immediate results could be an incentive to quit smoking and refrain from relapse once your quit smoking goal has been accomplished. The key to successfully stop smoking is to have a quit smoking strategy which inclu... Read >

Quitting Smoking with Help of a Nicotine Test Kit

A home nicotine test kit which gives immediate results could be an incentive to quit smoking and avoid relapse once your quit smoking goal has been accomplished. The key to successfully quit smoking is to have a quit smoking plan which includes a quit ... Read >

How to Implement a Computer-based Personal Health Record

A personal health record (PHR) is a health record initiated and maintained by an individual. It can be in the form of a handwritten health diary, but in today's information age it is most practical and efficient if it is based on a local computer with fu... Read >

How to Implement a Computer-based Personal Health Record

Implementing a personal health record (PHR) entails gathering as much information about your past and current health and organizing it in such a way that it can be easily retrievable and reproducible for circumstances that might require its use. The st... Read >

How to Find Health Insurance Online

A premier online health insurance agency provides a faster more efficient method of finding the best affordable health insurance than the traditional paper application and multiple telephone call process. Since insurance premiums are regulated and set... Read >

What is Normal Blood Pressure?

Blood pressure is the force exerted against the walls of arteries as blood is flowing through them. As the heart contracts to delivery more blood into the arteries the force reaches a maximum, known as the systolic blood pressure, which is the top number ... Read >

Benefits of Blood Pressure Monitoring

It is becoming increasingly apparent among healthcare professionals and researchers in the field of hypertension, that the traditional practice of relying on arbitrary blood pressure measurements obtained in the clinic or a doctor's office setting, is not... Read >