"We descendants of these animals were left with vestiges of their history, including the hiccup. In hiccupping, we use ancient muscles to quickly close the glottis while sucking in (albeit air ...

Hiccups seem to be shrouded in myth and mystery, from why we get them to how to get rid of them. Luckily, there are some recent scientific studies that may have discovered their real function. We ...

Attorneys for 2700 Sloat Holdings LLC, the developer of the proposed high-rise near the San Francisco Zoo, have made it clear that they intend to exercise the “builder’s remedy” should the ...

There is one more extreme remedy, which has been medically proven… although you might not want to try it at home. It was adopted by Francis Fesmire from the University Of Tennessee College of ...

The common home remedy of holding your breath is a diaphragm ... The theory suggests that once a hiccup has started, it is kept going by a simple motor reflex that we may have inherited from ...