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Update (January 25): The US Senate voted 55-43 to confirm former Eli Lilly executive Alex Azar as Health and Human Services Secretary on Wednesday (January 24). The vote was preceded by several critical speeches from Democrats who highlighted Azar’s oversight of Lilly’s drug price hikes while he was president of the company’s US branch.
President Donald Trump has nominated Alex Azar, a former pharmaceutical executive and health care consultant, for the position of secretary of the US Health and Human Services (HHS) department. If confirmed by the Senate, Azar will be one of few HHS secretaries to have come from an industry the HHS regulates, rather than from a career primarily in government.
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