The Times Online

Hiccup on

The surgeons at Louisiana University have cured the hiccups of a man who had suffered them for two years after a stroke, by connecting an electrical stimulator to the vagus nerve in his neck. The university reports how intractable hiccups are sometimes caused by the vagus nerve being irritated.

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