(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 ...

A case of the hiccups sure can be funny — at least, to the observer. You feel a flip-flopping in your chest, your body jerks and jumps, and the telltale "hic" escapes your mouth sometimes quietly, ...

They’re a nuisance and always seem to come at the most inconvenient times, but scientists may have discovered a purpose to hiccups. The researchers, from University College London, looked at incidents ...

A woman has revealed how she suffered hiccups every day for eight years, following a night of partying. Danielle Kirkland, now 28, didn’t think much of it when she woke up one morning in March 2008 ...

They happen to the best of us and, once they start, there’s often no controlling them. “It may be the nervous system and muscle system just practicing before they put on a big show at birth,” Dr.

A major case of the hiccups struck at the worst possible time for Houston-area meteorologist David Paul. At the very beginning of a lengthy weather report earlier this week, Paul started hiccuping and ...

The last time I had hiccups was four weeks ago when I saw "The Martian." I loved the book and couldn't wait to sit back and enjoy the movie. Unfortunately, I started to hiccup right after the previews ...

As coronavirus cases continue to spread across the world, so are the long list of growing symptoms and different case studies. Now, newer list of symptoms also include the ones which weren't reported ...