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Department of Defense Allocates Grant Funding To University for Study of Traumatic Brain Injuries Personal Injury: Traumatic Brain Injury. The University of California San Diego recently was awarded a grant in part funded by the Department of Defense (DoD) to improve treatments for traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for American citizens and returning war veterans. Anthrax Treatments May Cause More Harm Than Good Cipro was recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of anthrax infections among both children and adults. However, the FDA also recently issued a black box warning for the drug and its fluoroquinolone drug family after reports of tendonitis and Achilles tendon rupture began to surface. Uncovering the Severity in A Traumatic Brain Injury Victim When an individual suffers injury from an accident they are usually treated rather quickly at the nearby hospital or physician's office. However, when an individual endures a traumatic brain injury that is severe enough for them to go into a coma, there is no easy way to treat that patient. Because of this, the Glasgow and Rancho Los Amigos Scales of evaluating coma patients was developed.