The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it has granted the Pentagon an emergency authorization to use freeze-dried plasma to save U.S. troops wounded in combat.

The decision gives the military a potentially life-saving treatment when troops are in danger of bleeding out from bullet or blast wounds, and comes after a political dustup on Capitol Hill last year that threatened to hold up a must-pass defense authorization bill.

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