(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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — They happen to the best of us and, once they start, there's often no controlling them. Hiccups are a part of ...

One of the earliest recorded victims of chronic hiccups was the poet Aristophanes (circa 448-385 B.C.), a very hearty eater. On his physician’s advice, he tried holding his breath and gargling water — ...

Hiccups are usually harmless and occasionally show up in the form of an annoying distortion that most people deal with for a few minutes before they fade away. But in extremely rare cases, this common ...

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