[image: Steve Jobs: Photo Gallery]<http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/gallery.jsp?floc=g-wnew_steve_jobs2&gname=wnew_steve_jobs&pi=1&grurl=http%3A%2F%2Fchannels.isp.netscape.com%2Fwhatsnew%2Fdefault.jsp%3Fstory%3D20090105-1437&photo=2> In this photo combo, Apple Inc. founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs is seen on Sept. 17, 2007 in Berlin, Germany, left, and on Sept. 9, 2008 in San Francisco, right. Jobs, looking to end health rumors, on Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 said that a hormone imbalance is to blame for the weight loss that has prompted worries about his health. (AP File Photos)
Apple Inc. founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs has lost so much weight that his gaunt, skeletal face was enough to send shares of Apple Computer tumbling in the fourth quarter of 2008. Now the pancreatic cancer survivor says his weight loss is not the result of a cancer recurrence as many had feared, but instead a hormonal imbalance. The Associated Press reports that 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 wrote in a public letter, adding, "Sophisticated blood tests have confirmed this diagnosis." [image: Steve Jobs: Photo Gallery]<http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/gallery.jsp?floc=g-wnew_steve_jobs3&gname=wnew_steve_jobs&pi=2&grurl=http%3A%2F%2Fchannels.isp.netscape.com%2Fwhatsnew%2Fdefault.jsp%3Fstory%3D20090105-1437&photo=3> Worries about the Apple chief's health intensified when it was announced in December that he would not make his annual keynote address at the Macworld conference in January. The official reason was that the 2009 conference is the last year that Apple will appear, so instead a company marketing executive would speak. Investors seem glad to be told what is wrong with Jobs: Apple's shares rose $3.42, 3.8 percent, to $94.17 in morning trading on January 5. In his statement, Jobs said, "The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I've already begun treatment." He added, "Just like I didn't lose this much weight and body mass in a week or a month, my doctors expect it will take me until late this spring to regain it." In 2004, Jobs announced that he had undergone successful surgery to treat a form of pancreatic cancer that is extremely rare, but easily cured if diagnosed early, which it apparently was. [image: Steve Jobs: Photo Gallery]<http://channels.isp.netscape.com/whatsnew/gallery.jsp?floc=g-wnew_steve_jobs4&gname=wnew_steve_jobs&pi=3&grurl=http%3A%2F%2Fchannels.isp.netscape.com%2Fwhatsnew%2Fdefault.jsp%3Fstory%3D20090105-1437&photo=4> -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gimik" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gimik?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
