Two studies which demonstrated that rectal massage was a cure for "intractable hiccups" last night secured the prestigious Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine at the annual awards ceremony.
Francis M Fesmire of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine was honoured for his medical case report entitled " ", sharing the spoils with and Majed Odeh, Harry Bassan, and Arie Oliven of Bnai Zion Medical Centre, Haifa, Israel, for their subsequent medical case report also titled " ."
Other laureats stepping up to receive their awards at Harvard's Sanders Theatre included: Nic Svenson and Piers Barnes of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation, for " the number of photographs you must take to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed" (Mathematics award); Basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch of the Universit e Pierre et Marie Curie, in Paris, for their " into why, when you bend dry spaghetti, it often breaks into more than two pieces" (Physics); and Antonio Mulet, Jos e Javier Benedito and Jos e Bon of the University of Valencia, Spain, and Carmen Rossell o of the University of Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, for their study " " (Chemistry).
The full list of ground-breaking scientific endeavour can be found . Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to deal with a nasty bout of hiccups..
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