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St. Francis Medical Center will open a new clinic for people with vocal cord dysfunction, a condition often mistaken for asthma. The clinic will operate from the speech and hearing department at the ...

Some patients develop an inability to burp (abelchia) because the muscle that surrounds the bottom of the throat (the cricopharyngeus muscle) remains overly tight when they attempt to allow air to ...