Page reveals he is suffering from partial vocal cord paralysis

Google's CEO Larry Page today disclosed that he is suffering from partial vocal cord paralysis, but said he is fully fit to attend work.
Revealing his health condition, 40-year-old Page wrote on his blog on Tuesday that it was in the last summer that he learned that his second vocal cord has also reduced movement.
The problem for Page started about 14 years ago when he got a bad cold and his voice became hoarse. Later, he was "diagnosed with left vocal cord paralysis" which is "a nerve problem that causes your left vocal cord to not move properly".
"...After some initial recovery I'm fully able to do all I need to at home and at work, though my voice is softer than before," Page, who leads the world's biggest search engine, said.

Page, who is also the co-founder of Google, had replaced Eric Schmidt as its CEO in April 2011. Schmidt had announced Page would be absent from a number of company events.
The Wall Street and Silicon Valley deeply worried about Page's health, especially after considering that Apple Inc had refused to disclose initially the details of its co-founder Steve Jobs' health problems. Jobs died of cancer in October, 2011.

Page's disclosure clears the mystery around his health. Earlier he had missed Google's annual shareholders meeting in June and a conference call to discuss the company's quarterly earnings in July, apparently due to health reasons.

He has since then attended three earnings call conferences, much to the relief of Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
Meanwhile, Google's stocks rose to its lifetime high of USD 911.76 on Nasdaq today.