Arizona Revised Statutes § 36-271 Definitions

36-271. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. " Commission" means the Arizona biomedical research commission.

2. " Department" means the department of health services.

3. " Disease" means a condition or disorder that causes the human body to deviate from its normal or healthy state and that has no known general cure or adequate medically accepted treatment.

4. " Medically accepted treatment" means a methodology or protocol recognized by the American medical association, the American college of surgeons or the national cancer institute or taught by an approved school of medicine as defined in section 32-1401 as a treatment that results in the restoration of the human body to a normal or healthy state.

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