What's—hic—up?

Guest: Georg Petroianu, Chair, Department of Cellular Biology and Pharmacology, Florida International University School of Medicine Why do we hiccup? Is there some point to it? Kathryn hiccups off and on all the time. But this guy named Charles Osborne holds the record for 68 years of continuous hiccupping! Often up to 20 hiccups a minute. Can you imagine? He died in 1991, just in case you were thinking you might need to call him with some surefire cure your aunt told you about.