Steve Jobs has hormone imbalance, will remain CEO

[onehandle]

Source: AP

NEW YORK – Apple Inc. founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer, said Monday that a hormonal imbalance is to blame for the weight loss that has prompted worries about his health.

Jobs, 53, said he will undergo a "relatively simple" treatment and will remain in charge of Apple.

"A hormone imbalance ... has been `robbing' me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy," Jobs said in a public letter, adding, "Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis."

Speculation about his health percolated in 2008 as Jobs appeared gaunt at public appearances. Those worries intensified after Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple said in December that Jobs would not be making his annual keynote address Tuesday in San Francisco at the Macworld conference.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090105/ap_on_bi_ge/apple_j...

[MADem]

1. While I wish him well, I have a feeling this might not be the whole truth.

Doesn't Patrick Swayze have the same problem? He's not looking too hot, either...

[chatnoir]

2. Swayze does have cancer :(

Edited to add updated link

http://www.dailystab.com/patrick-swayze-cancer-has-repo...

[onehandle]

3. That story was denied.

He's working on the lead for a TV series. I'm not saying that I know for sure he's not sick, but that story you posted is over a month old.

[chatnoir]

5. He doesn't deny having cancer

But rather that it has spread apparently

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20243724,00.htm...

[Javaman]

4. Pancreatic cancer is tough. Someone I worked with just died of that.

Horrible way to go.

I liked him in The Outsiders.

[chatnoir]

6. My grandmother died of the same

Horrible all around.

[OhioChick]

7. Something tells me that Jobs

Has a little more going on than only a "hormone imbalance."

[Botany]

8. If it is prancreatic cancer that is very bad

It is one of the tough ones. I hope Mr. Job is O.K..

[Acadia Blue]

9. Graves disease?

[Sultana]

10. Get well soon, Steve

[Deja Q]

11. He lost me when he did his rant against teachers' unions, but he's a character...

(He had a snit fit, partly because not all the school districts were shelling out money for macs like how they used to... I don't know of any union that has a "no fire under any circumstance" clause, and given the unruly state of children and teachers' inability to get to control them, I would support a no-fire contract too. Until the core problem gets resolved.)


Someone else responded Steve may not be telling the whole truth about his health. Probably a very shrewd observation -- for Steve is a businessman, under what circumstances is he allowed to actually tell the truth? (apart from when there's a legitimate quarterly profit, of course.) Didn't Apple's stock plummet the day some blogger posted he had a heart attack or something? If the stock market is THAT insecure, of course he's not going to tell the truth about his health condition! Precedents have been set!

[Skittles]

12. I wish Mr. Jobs well

yes INDEED