Very few of us haven't experienced those strange sounds known as hiccups that sometimes escape our mouths without warning. It's an occurrence we frequently find funny when it happens to others, but it ...

While hiccups are typically short-lived, they can also be painful, loud and disruptive—especially if they last hours (or more!). But what causes hiccups, and how can you get rid of them? Here, doctors ...

Hiccups, those sudden diaphragm spasms, are usually harmless and brief, often triggered by eating or stress. However, ...

Hiccups are noisy, annoying, and people try some pretty silly things to get rid of them. Spasms in the dome-shaped muscle at the bottom of your chest called the diaphragm are to blame for pesky bouts ...

Hiccups happen when an involuntary spasm in the diaphragm causes the vocal chords to snap shut, which makes that hiccup sound. Everyone grows up with their own family hiccups cure. There's trying to ...

There appears to finally be a cure for hiccups — and yes, there is a purchase required. In an interview with The Atlantic, University of Texas at San Antonio professor and hiccup expert Ali Seifi ...

What Are Hiccups and What Causes Them? Besides being annoying, hiccups are kind of weird, right? Before we get into hiccup-stopping hacks, let’s talk about what hiccups are. “ ...

One-hundred years ago on June 13, a man from Iowa named Charles Osborne started hiccupping — and he didn’t stop for 68 years! Can you imagine that? More than half-a-century of hiccupping? Yet we know ...

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