From standing on your head and pressing on your eyeballs to breathing through a paper bag and chewing on a lemon, people will do just about anything to get rid of hiccups. The sudden, involuntary ...

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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 ...

For most of us, hiccups are an occasional — perhaps even amusing — inconvenience. For people who get hiccups for hours a day, however, the spasms can be unbearable. Despite dramatic advances in health ...

It’s a universal truth that having the hiccups is annoying. Imagine getting a case of the hiccups before you have to lead a work meeting or when you’re on a date. Mortifying, right? Beyond that, some ...

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized Wednesday for abdominal pain and hiccuping that has lasted more than 10 days, the latest health concern for the 66-year-old who contracted Covid-19 ...

Did you think that having hiccups for an hour was frustrating? Well, it could always be worse, and you could find yourself experiencing the same thing as one man from Iowa in the United States, who ...