After receiving a liver transplant and a Tennessee hospital, the Apple cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs seems to be getting closer to returning to work as his doctors gave him an excellent prognosis. The Apple CEO received a liver transplant because he was in end-stage liver disease. This was posted on the hospital’s website when he received the transplant

“He received a liver transplant because he was … the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available,” Dr. James D. Eason, chief of transplantation at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, said in a statement late Tuesday. “Mr. Jobs is now recovering well and has an excellent prognosis.”

Eason said in a news release posted on the hospital’s Web site that when Jobs received the transplant, he was in end-stage liver disease.

The doctor made the disclosure with Jobs’ permission. Jobs has been on a medical leave since January. Eason did not reveal when the operation took place, citing patient privacy. However, The Wall Street Journal reported it was two months ago.

Apple did not confirm the newspaper’s report and has stated that Jobs is looking forward to returning to Apple, which he started in 1976, at the end of June. Eason said the hospital could not reveal further information on the specifics of the transplant.

“That’s all that we are giving out at this time,” hospital spokeswoman Ruth Ann Hale told The Associated Press.

Wall Street has grappled with the implications of Jobs’ health since August 2004, when investors learned the CEO had kept a cancer diagnosis secret until after he underwent surgery. The company’s past silence on matters of Jobs’ health made shareholders jittery when he appeared increasingly, even alarmingly, thin last year.

Investors sent the stock tumbling 5 percent to its lowest point in a year on a rumor last October that Jobs had suffered a heart attack.

Then shares slipped 2% in December when Apple said that Jobs would not speak as usual the next month at the annual Macworld conference, then bounced up 4 percent on Jan. 5 when Jobs explained his weight loss as a treatable hormone imbalance. They sank 7% a week later after Apple said he would be taking six months off because his medical problems were more complex than he initially thought.

Since then, Wall Street’s whiplash has had time to heal, especially because Apple’s stock has weathered the recession better than those of most of its competitors. Cupertino, California-based Apple put Tim Cook, its chief operating officer, at the helm during Jobs’ absence.

Apple shares were up 99 cents at $135 in premarket trading last month. They are up more than 70% from their 52-week low of $78.20 on Jan. 20.

Almost 6 months ago Bloomberg news reported that Apple was facing a review by the Securities and Exchange Commission while leading an investigation into the reports of Steve Jobs’ health problems. Earlier this month Bloomberg reported that Apple’s reports about Jobs’ health are still under scrutiny by the SEC

But the 1,039 word piece, reported by Connie Guglielmo, David Scheer and Karen Gullo, offers no new information about the government probe, what it’s after or what progress it has made.

The story quotes a former SEC lawyer, a former SEC enforcement attorney, a securities law professor, and the author of a paper on advocating CEO health disclosures.

The pivotal question, as the experts point out, is what happened in the nine days between Steve Jobs’ Jan. 5 announcement that he had a “hormone imbalance” and his Jan. 14 statement that he was taking a five and a half month medical leave.

Connie Guglielmo led the Bloomberg team that reported in January that Jobs was considering a liver transplant. The fact that Jobs had the surgery — and had been sick enough to go to the head of the transplant waiting list — was not revealed until June 20, a few days before he returned from his medical leave.

Given that her sources had nothing new to say about the SEC review, it’s not clear why Guglielmo chose to revisit the story today, less than two weeks before Apple is scheduled to release earnings for what analysts think will be a strong quarter.

There was one nugget of news in the piece, however. It had been widely reported that members of Apple’s board were being briefed by Jobs’ doctors on his condition. The Bloomberg story names them: Art Levinson, former CEO of Genentech, and Bill Campbell, the former CEO of Intuit.

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My Take: It sounds to me like somebody is on a witch-hunt! I can understand how a company stocks would fluctuate if the CEO/founder got sick, but trying to save it that person is doing it on purpose? Many people get sick and sometimes they do not know exactly what is wrong for while. After several tests, doctors visits and examinations, they should find out what is wrong. There are many symptoms that resemble that of a heart attack, however, in reality they are not.

I do not know if Steve Jobs actually had a liver transplant or a heart attack. One thing is for sure, if he did have a liver transplant, he is not going to need a DUI attorney. It is not highly recommended that you drink alcohol after having a liver transplant. He may have needed a DUI lawyer before at some time, but he will not need one any time soon if he had a liver transplant.

Whatever his health is like, I would recommend that he study the Alexander Technique in Manhattan. It would definitely improve his health and making feel better. I understand that there are many famous people who study the Alexander Technique and enjoy it including singers and musicians. The reason being, it helps you learn how to use your body and muscles the way God intended.

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