摘要：It is a great honour for our young journal to have found Dr. Howard Jones Jr, the American IVF pioneer, and Dr. Brian Allan, a gynaecologist active in the insuring consulting business, prepared to write a short survey of how Single Embryo Transfer is slowly finding a way into the American reproductive practice. Dr. Jones, who will turn 100 years at the end of this year, thereby demonstrates his never ending endeavour to strive towards truly high quality care for patients. Many minds are ripe for judicious SET in the United Stated, but the health insurance system, or the relative lack thereof, has hampered the implementation of SET. It will be interesting to see whether the changes that have been backed by the present US government will have any impact on the still high incidence of multiple pregnancies in the US. However, if some kind of financial agreement can be obtained between the larger health insurance companies and prac- titioners and their representatives, it is not impossible that in a near future, a drastic reduction of multiples will be possible. Other countries, e.g. Turkey, which also recently voted a very ¨C perhaps too ¨C wide application of SET, have tackled the problem in their own way.
