Heartburn sufferers soon won't need a prescription to buy the popular remedy Prilosec, better known in TV ads as "the purple pill." The Food and Drug Administration approved a nonprescription ...

But a sole sentence is not enough. These medications are better known in the public by the moniker "purple pill" thanks to the colour of one of the top-selling options, Nexium. Pharmacologically ...

What’s the top-selling brand-name prescription drug in America? Nexium, "the purple pill."” We spend six billion dollars a year on it. It’s one of many proton pump inhibitors, or PPI’s ...