There are lots of myths about hiccups - from peculiar causes to stories about people who’ve had them for several years. But are there any truths to the myths? And what are hiccups a sign of?

I always get hiccups, so a lot of my friends have been giving me suggestions for cures. The best cure for hiccups happens to be hopping around in a circle and saying "pineapple" five times.

But real hiccups may also be a, well, hiccup. “A hiccup is essentially a spasm of the diaphragm, the muscle that contracts to ...

Hiccups occur when the thin layer of muscle underneath your lungs, your diaphragm, suddenly and involuntarily contracts. As your diaphragm tightens, it causes you take a sharp breath. But this ...

and “Er, should I be worried?”: dog hiccups. That’s right, dogs get hiccups, just like virtually all mammals. But while a dog’s facial expression (like when its nose wrinkles) and body ...

It was then that a nightmare that would last 68 years began. “Hip!” “Wow, I got the hiccups,” he must have thought. But the days, the weeks and the months followed one after another.

Rodri would be a perfect player for Real Madrid.” However, the former Villarreal midfielder laid out the potential hiccups Real Madrid could face in convincing Manchester City to offload the ...