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 ...

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 ...

Hiccups, scientifically known as singultus, are involuntary diaphragm contractions often triggered by eating or drinking.

When you get hiccups, it might seem like they are coming out of nowhere – and before you know it, they’re gone. To find out exactly why hiccups happen, I talked to my friend Dr. Luisita Francis, a ...

(The Conversation) – We all get hiccups from time to time, and sometimes they just won’t seem to go away. Hiccups are involuntary contractions of the diaphragm – the muscle separating your chest from ...

Hiccups can be bothersome after just a few minutes, but in a recent Instagram post, actor Dax Shepard revealed he had suffered through 50 hours of hiccups. The 46-year-old posted two videos to his ...

A gastroenterologist explains why old-school remedies work—and what to try. Recent research also highlights new techniques to get rid of hiccups. Hiccups that won’t go away may need medical treatment ...

There is simply no way to expect hiccups. They happen suddenly and all we can do is drink a lot of water in the hopes that they will go away. What are the causes of hiccups? Sometimes they do, other ...

The study, which looked at brain activity among newborns, suggests the body function helps in early development to regulate breathing From chugging a glass of water to inducing a scare, there are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Conversation) – We all get hiccups from ...