For humans, it offers no useful value, only an often embarrassing case of hiccups. OK, first of all: this actually happens very, very rarely, so please don’t panic. Charles Osborne from Iowa ...

When these muscles spasm, this leads you to breathe in rapidly and causes your throat to close off very briefly, leading to the "hic" sound of hiccups. Eating too much or too quickly can cause ...

Or you could try and give yourself a fright. But, hiccups are very hard to study and even harder to induce, so while the mechanism seems obvious many of these ‘cures’ don’t have a vast ...