Valethamate bromide: Conflicting evidence and continuing use

• Thirunavukkarasu Arun Babu^1*,
• Vijayan Sharmila¹

1. ¹versus valethamate bromide in shortening the duration of active labor. Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2009;107:126-9. Author’s reply Dear Editor, The authors have stated the editorial was judgmental rather than being open to all the available evidence.[1,2] However, they have not been able to produce any other additional evidence except for reference No. 4, in their letter, which is a single trial published in Turkish.[3] The Turkish trial was not included in the editorial since it is a good practice to never cite what you have not read. The information given in the abstract which was translated in English was far too less to enable me to draw.

Published in Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapeutics