For the world and all of us there is one consolation: the knowledge that while Ebola may have killed Dr Stella Adadevoh, she in turn may have stopped it killing thousands or even millions of other Nigerians. Dr Stella Adadevoh, was not a virology or public-health expert, simply a duty consultant at the First Consultant Hospital, a private clinic in Lagos. It was her sharp-eyed diagnosis, however, that identified Nigeria’s first case of the virus – a 40-year-old civil servant called Patrick Sawyer, who flew in to Lagos from Ebola-devastated Liberia in July.

Do you want to see your doctor’s medical notes? Doctor, What right do you have to keep the patient out of the loop? Should Doctors Notes be open and available to the patient? We are fast entering the era of the electronic health record, when it will be possible to call up our medical records on our computers and mobile devices. Medication lists, lab results, and appointment schedules—they’ll all be available with clicks of your mouse or taps on the screen of your smartphone, iPad or tablet. An extension and expansion of e-health, e-medicine,-e-doctor and now e-patient!

Malaria in pregnancy can have devastating consequences for the mother and the unborn child.  Clearly, effective interventions to prevent malaria in pregnancy have been woefully slow to translate into policy and practice, and there are many remaining gaps where research is urgently needed.