The symptoms: The patient went to a hospital after having hiccups for three days. But when doctors listened to the patient's lungs, they heard "obvious moist crackles," they wrote in a report of the ...

Maybe it's just me, but six days seems like a long time to have the hiccups. Let's double-check with my wife. My sainted wife, that is. "The other night," she says, "I almost smothered you with a ...

The symptoms: The patient went to a hospital after having hiccups for three days. What happened next: Doctors in the hospital's neurology department examined the patient and performed an MRI of his ...

Everyone gets the hiccups. The unmistakable, sudden muscle movements and distinct "hic" sound are an all too common occurrence, especially while eating or drinking. While hiccups are usually brief and ...

Sometimes medical breakthroughs come from deep thought and research, and sometimes it's just being a first-year nurse and not wanting the patients to think you're drunk. Mary McCarthy Kaunelis is ...