US COLLEGE basketball finals in March create an ideal opportunity to get a vasectomy right - the obscure link is based on men who want to get their vas deferens severed scheduling the operation during the final three weeks of college basketball finals, leaving them with nothing to do but sit around and watch, as they nurse their painful parts.
The period is dubbed March Madness and every year urologists offer vasectomy specials, some even providing pizza coupons.
New Orleans urologist Dr Neil Baum reportedly also throws in a copy of Sports Illustrated (swimsuit issue of course) a frozen gel pack, and a bell, so that patients can sit on the couch and ring for someone to "bring them a fresh beer or whatever they need" - chauvinism is not dead.
A baby has been born in China four years after his parents died in a car crash.
The curious case was the result of embryos which the couple had had frozen in the hope of conceiving through IVF.
In 2013 a tragic accident saw them both killed on the road, and relatives subsequently fought a legal battle in order to be allowed to use the fertilised eggs.
A court eventually gave the would-be grandparents the right to use the embryos, with the baby born to a surrogate this week.
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