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''The key takeaway is that jobs matter more than Egypt,'' said Alec Young, a global equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ. ''Nothing is more impor- Wall Street tant to the state of the economy than the jobs market.'' In the U.S., fewer people sought unemployment benefits last week and ADP, a payrolls processor, said businesses added more jobs last month than analysts had expected. The government's broader monthly survey of U.S. employment is scheduled to be released Friday morning. Economists predict that employers added 165,000 jobs in June. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 56.14 points, or 0.4 percent, to close at 14,988.55. The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 1.33 points, or 0.1 percent, to 1,615.41. The Nasdaq composite gained 10.27 points, or 0.3 percent, to 3,443.67. Trading closed at 1 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time ahead of the July 4th holiday Thursday. Regular trading will resume Friday. Investors will be watching the government's jobs report closely in hopes of figuring out what the Federal Reserve will do next. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said June 19 that the central bank was considering easing back on its stimulus program later this year if the economy strengthens enough. The central bank is buying $85 billion in bonds every month to keep interest rates low and encourage spending. The Fed may be forced to keep stimulating the economy because U.S. growth remains muted, said Derek Gabrielsen, a wealth advisor, at Strategic Wealth Partners. That will provide a boost to stocks. ''The schedule that (Bernanke) laid out is not going to be realized as quickly as he said,'' Gabrielsen said. ''I don't think the economy can handle it.'' Payroll processing firm ADP said that U.S. employers added 188,000 jobs in June, more than the 155,000 forecast by economists. Also, the government's weekly report on unemployment claims provided more evidence that layoffs remain low and job gains steady. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to 343,000. In U.S. government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note was unchanged at 2.48 percent from Tuesday. In Europe, stock markets slumped after the yield on Portugal's benchmark 10-year bond surged almost a percentage point to 7.31 percent. Investors are worried about the future of the bailed-out country and its efforts to get a handle on its debt after two Cabinet members quit. Germany's DAX index fell 1 percent to 7,829 and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 fell 1.2 percent to 6,229. The price of oil climbed $1.43, or 1.5 percent, to $101.03. Oil has climbed almost 8 percent since Monday last week. The price of gold rose $8.50, or 0.7 percent, to close at $1,251.90. Research using mice may lead to healthier human hearts DEAR DOCTOR K: My husband has conges- tive heart failure. 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I read about a new discovery that agerelated heart failure can be reversed in mice. Could that help my husband? DEAR READER: There are different kinds of congestive heart failure, and there are effective treatments for many. Your husband may have a common kind called age-related diastolic dysfunction. There is no specific treatment that prevents or reverses this condition. But you are right that a remarkable treatment was recently reported for a similar condition in mice. Congestive heart failure occurs when the heart cannot pump efficiently enough to meet the body's need for blood. In a young, healthy heart, when blood enters the main pumping chambers (the ventricles), their walls stretch and the chambers expand to receive all the blood. In age-related diastolic dysfunction, the heart muscle becomes thicker Wager's team joined the and stiffer. As a result, blood circulation of an old mouse to that of a when blood enters young mouse. the heart, the heart Suddenly, the muscle can't arteries and veins stretch enough to of the two aniaccept all the mals shared the blood. The blood same blood. After backs up into the four weeks of a lungs, causing shared circulabreathing difficultion, the thickty. Blood also Dr. K ened, stiff heart backs up into the by Anthony L. rest of the body, Komaroff, M.D. muscle of the old mouse became causing fatigue and swelling — particu- dramatically less thick and stiff. The experiment larly of the legs and feet. We don't know what was repeated on many causes age-related heart pairs of old and young failure in humans, and mice, with the same because of that, we don't results. This indicated that know how to prevent or reverse it. A similar con- some substance was predition occurs in mice, and sent in the blood of the we may now have figured young mice that rejuvenated the heart muscle of out how to treat it. A group of my col- the old mice. Most likely, leagues at Harvard Med- that substance had been in ical School conducted the the blood of the old mice research in mice that you when they were younger, read about. They were led but the substance had by Dr. Richard Lee, co- decreased as the mice editor-in-chief of the Har- aged. The team then identivard Heart Letter, and fied a substance, called professor Amy Wagers. Dr. Lee and Dr. GDF11, which was pre- sent at high levels in the blood of young mice but not old mice. They treated old mice with enough GDF11 to raise their blood levels of GDF11 to the same levels as it was present in young mice. Again, the thickened, stiff heart muscle of the old mice became thinner and more flexible. This discovery in mice may one day lead to effective treatments to prevent or reverse this common type of heart failure in humans. Although it will take many more years of research to determine if this discovery will help us, recent advances in aging research gives me hope that it will. Dr. Komaroff is a physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. To send questions, go to AskDoctorK.com, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, MA 02115.)