HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) — The laptops that hold voter registration information caused delays at some polling places across Hampton Roads on Tuesday, and in one case, kept a polling location open ...

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 ...

Hiccups are caused by spasms in your diaphragm, the large muscle just below your lungs. Some people have chronic hiccups that last for days, weeks, or years. Hiccups happen when your diaphragm ...

When it comes to getting rid of those pesky little diaphragm spasms we call hiccups, it seems everyone and their mother—literally—has a tried-and-true method. While some make sense from a medical ...

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 ...

Let’s be honest, hiccups are annoying and can be frustratingly hard to stop. But they’re something that most mammals deal with, including dogs, horses and even squirrels. While the majority of hiccups ...

Jesse Eisenberg is as unpredictable on the page as he is on screen. Some of those stories are included in Bream Gives Me Hiccups, his first book. Bream collects tales and jokes that muse absurdly on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Conversation) – We all get hiccups from ...

Once is funny, twice is hilarious, and anything more than that is usually just annoying. We’ve all had them, but do you actually know where they come from? They’re hiccups, and they’re the strange ...

No one is thrilled to get the hiccups - they're a nuisance and annoyingly disruptive. In some cases, though, hiccups can be wildly uncomfortable. So what's the deal? Why do your hiccups hurt sometimes ...

Hiccups that don't go away after 48 hours can persist but after a month, they're called intractable. Also called intractable sigultus, the word means "gasp" or "sob" in Latin. And if your hiccups ...