Everyone knows that little discomfort that arrives without warning: a strange sound, a little jump, and it's off for a ...

Baby hiccups are normal, harmless, and should resolve within 15 minutes to an hour.

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 occur when your diaphragm contracts in a spastic, involuntary manner. You can get rid of hiccups by stopping the spasms.

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 ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a healthy 64-year-old man. I got a terrible rash from poison ivy and needed to be put on prednisone. After a few days, I started having terrible hiccups. They’ve been going on for ...

Sometimes medical breakthroughs come from deep thought and research, and sometimes it's just being a first-year nurse and not wanting the patients to think you're drunk. Mary McCarthy Kaunelis is ...

"Nicotine hiccups" sound made up. But experts say they're a real phenomenon. Recent data on drug side effects found that nicotine was associated with the hiccups, according to a 2021 study looking at ...