BC Business - The business of Making Babies

If you think parenting is tough, consider that one in six couples can't even get there. But there's a new baby boom underway and with it, fertility clinics are beginning to breed across the province. And though the prices aren't cheap, the procedures aren't easy and the odds aren't great, the business of babies has never looked better.

The price of Life

by Nick Rockel

A different kind of poke.

Lorne Brown has the low-key manner of a chartered accountant - which is what he was before going back to school to study traditional Chinese medicine. A licensed TCM practitioner, Brown opened his own practice in 2000. At the Acubalance Wellness Centre in Vancouver's Fairview neighborhood, he uses acupuncture an other therapies to help women and men improve the reproductive health.

Published Sept 2005

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