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The United States Senate voted to confirm new US health secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday, with the final vote count at 55-43. This comes after the post of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was lying vacant for the last four months. Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive, replaces Tom Price, who resigned in September last year after he was found to be wasting taxpayer's money of more than US$1 million by undertaking repeated trips on private and military jets, The Hill reported.