A photo of MJ Kievman, the founder and CEO of Meter Health, who experienced hiccups as a young child and developed Hiccupops, a lollipop to stop hiccups.

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Ali Seifi, a neurointensivist at the University of Texas, San Antonio who created the HiccAway straw to stop hiccups.

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A photo of Mark Fox, a gastroenterologist at the University of Zürich and an expert on hiccups.

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Nicole Allard, who experienced chronic hiccups for 15 years, sits atop a hill with red flowers overlooking a valley with green brush and wetlands in Alaska.

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An illustration of how the vagus and phrenic nerves stretch across the body and coordinate sensory signals to control the rise and fall of the diaphragm, resulting in the rapid opening and closing of the glottis during a hiccup. 

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A photo of a blue HiccAway straw, which stops hiccups when sucked on, sitting in a glass of water. 

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Two product boxes for the orange citrus and sour apple flavors of Hiccupops. 

A photo of Claudia Bush, an anesthesiologist at the University of Heidelberg, who is building a local patient registry to better understand hiccups. 

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