I am not a sports fan (and that's putting it mildly), but I live with one. That can make things kind of interesting, especially during basketball season. We have a compromise: He only watches local teams, and I don't complain about it. Plus, I always get the TV on Thursday nights. It works for us. But then comes March and the event that tests our agreement to its limits -- March Madness.

Some Oregon urologists have a creative take on March Madness. If you're a man looking for a reason to watch the games all week without feeling guilty, why not use the time to recover from that vasectomy you've been meaning to get? After the procedure, men need about two to four days to recover and many never take that much time off. The doctors in Oregon are even offering a post-surgical package that includes pizza, sports magazines, and frozen peas.

Very creative, doctors, very creative. I think this is a hilarious (and possibly effective) marketing technique. What do you think?

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Guys: have you had a vasectomy lately? Are you sure the procedure worked 100%? A study from 2006 stated that many men who undergo the procedure don't return the requested two consecutive times to ensure there is no viable sperm in a few samples.

If so, the procedure didn't work as planned. Could that lead to a possible issue in the future? Maybe, and are you willing to take that chance?

A current study took the 006 study further and investigated whether a follow-up study at the time of the vasectomy would help men return for those tests. Surprise -- it did.

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A recent study has found that men who have a vasectomy could be at higher risk of developing a rare kind of dementia.

The neurological condition, in which language skills slowly deteriorate, is called primary progressive aphasia, or PPA. Researchers at Northwestern University have PPA to male sterilization. In the study, 40 percent of men suffering from PPA had undergone a vasectomy, compared with only 16 percent of their healthy counterparts.

Sandra Weintraub, who led the study, hopes the findings won't stop men from getting vasectomies, saying: "I was hoping not to, but unfortunately it's the kind of news that ends up scaring people even though they may not need to be scared."

While larger studies need to be conducted to conclusively demonstrate a link, Weintraub speculates that a possible cause could be sperm leaking into the blood during sterilization surgery. Antibodies that were subsequently released into the immune in response to the sperm may cause damage that could eventually lead to PPA.

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