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 ...

Brazil's imprisoned former president, Jair Bolsonaro, has undergone a second medical procedure in just three days to treat ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Hiccups are usually an unserious involuntary spasm of the organs but in some situations a little serious and pointers to these underlying health issues! It is characterized by a gulping sound with a ...

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 ...

Most people think of hiccups as a minor annoyance. They normally last a few minutes and disappear as suddenly and mysteriously as they arrived. But some people experience chronic hiccups that last for ...

Q: I'm writing to you in hopes that you have a solution to an unusual problem. My 74-year-old brother is a cancer survivor, and has had the hiccups for more than nine months. He has had a lot of tests ...

The 70-year-old had suffered with the spasms for nine months, his wife says, and was already in hospital for hernia surgery.