While hiccups are usually harmless and short-lived, they can, in rare circumstances, become medically significant ...

Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, underwent a medical procedure on Saturday afternoon at a hospital in Brasília to treat a bout of persistent hiccups.

Brazil's jailed former president Jair Bolsonaro was recently reported to have undergone three medical treatments to stop a bout of persistent hiccups ...

Hiccups are repeated spasms or sudden movements of the diaphragm that you can’t control. The diaphragm is the muscle that separates your chest from your stomach area and plays an important role in ...

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 ...

In total, the researchers identified 8466 patients who were diagnosed with hiccups during the study period but before a potential cancer diagnosis. The vast majority (89%) were men. The incidence rate ...