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Wired: Epicenter: Steve Jobs Cites Treatable Hormone Imbalance For Weight Loss
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The Next Web: Jobs Comes Clean. He’s Not Well.
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Steve Jobs Admits New Illness But Stays As CEO; Says Treatment Is Simple, Underway
paidContent —
... Steve Jobs went public this morning with the reason for his low profile of late—a hormone imbalance that he says is being treated while he remains as CEO. The news emerges after months of speculation about the prostate cancer survivor's health, talk that ramped up last month after word that Jobs would not give his traditional Macworld keynote and has been hampering Apple's stock. In a letter released as a press release as the market opened Monday morning, Jobs said it was that speculation that prompted him to make this disclosure: ...
Steve Jobs Cites Treatable Hormone Imbalance For Weight Loss
Wired: Epicenter —
... Steve Jobs has broken a deafening silence on his health to tell the "Apple Community" in a letter that it is not a recurrence of his pancreatic cancer but a treatable hormone imbalance that is the cause for his noticeable weight loss. ...
Steve Jobs Admits New Illness But Stays As CEO; Says Treatment Is Simple, Underway
mocoNews —
... ). The news emerges after months of speculation about the prostate cancer survivor's health, talk that ramped up last month after word that Jobs would not give his traditional Macworld keynote and has been hampering Apple's stock. In a letter released as a press release as the market opened Monday morning, Jobs said it was that speculation that prompted him to make this disclosure. ...
Jobs Comes Clean. He’s Not Well.
The Next Web —
Despite ever increasing denials that health issues played a part a in the pulling out of MacWorld, Jobs has finally decided to come clean in an open letter.
He highlights that his startling and publicly noticed weight loss has been due to a hormone imbalance. He concludes, “I will continue as Apple’s CEO during my recovery.”
Here is Steve’s letter:
Dear Apple Community,
For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely ...
Steve Jobs Admits Illness to Blame for Passing on Macworld
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
... Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews Another Steve Jobs health rumor? No, not a rumor this time. Information from an open letter from Steve Jobs, filed via press release , confirms that he is skipping Macworld due to illness. Yet, at the time of this writing, AAPL stock is up! The reasons: openness, and a non-dire illness. Yes, AAPL is up to $93.30, nearly 3%. One thing I’ve always said is that Apple being close-mouthed about Steve Jobs and his health, a source of much attention for those tracking Apple, hurts as much as an actual illness. By opening up about the problem, it ...
Jobs admits he's suffering from "hormone imbalance," still CEO
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... Hoping to quell a firestorm of rumors about his health, Apple's CEO says he's undergoing treatment for a "nutritional problem" and is "not on my deathbed." In the statement , published Monday morning—just a day before the Macworld keynote that he's slated to skip—Steve Jobs acknowledges that he's been "losing weight throughout 2008." The reason? A "hormone imbalance that has been 'robbing' me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy"—and not, apparently, a recurrence of cancer (for which Jobs was treated back in 2004). Jobs goes on to say that the "remedy … is relatively ...
