To cite: Sahai M, Oliver AM. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013008584 DESCRIPTION A 46-year-old man with a history of hypertension presented with a 6-month history of progressive, diffuse skin thickening. He denied any exposure to new drugs, toxins or contrast material, had no history of Raynaud’s disease or endocrine disorder. Physical examinati...

I don’t know whether anybody else has noticed the distinct decline in recent years of cases of scientific fraud, plagiarism and other deviations of our noble profession. It seems to me that about a decade ago not a week passed without screaming headlines of faked experiments, cooked results and the lifting of other people’s work. I have been thinking about possible reasons for the decline since...

The progressive research and development in computing and information processing technologies have fuelled its way to the emergence of a new range of electronic documents that are expected to fully exploit the electronic medium’s basic properties of added interactivity and flexibility. Coupled with the affiliation with metadata and additional layers of information, e-documents will engage a new...