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NEW YORK, September 15, 2005 - Consumer Health Sciences, a Ziment Group company, announced today that it has relaunched the National Health and Wellness Survey (NHWS) to include a multitude of additional products and services.

"The National Health and Wellness Study database is the crown jewel of CHS," said Howard Ziment, Chief Executive Officer of The Ziment Group. "We are excited that we have been able to take the Group's considerable resources to make it easier to access the benefits of the National Health and Wellness Study."

The NHWS is a rich and powerful database that provides an understanding into how patients flow into, through and out of physicians' offices. It collects an abundance of information about their overall health, including the diseases they suffer from, treatments they use, their attitudes towards their health and subsequent behaviors. This data is collected directly from 41,000 adult consumers in the U.S. and 36,000 Europeans, covering over 75 therapeutic areas. It is available for immediate use and was born with and maintains an outcomes bent (using the latest outcomes scales in its question set).

The re-launch of NHWS involves a suite of products that make accessing the database easy. They include:

• CORE: This is the door to the NHWS database, providing a treatise on a given therapy area.
• DRIVER: This is an analysis of a given therapy area to identify the driving forces that help or hinder patient flow into the physician’s office, receiving and then filling a RX for a given drug.
• Outcomes Posters and Manuscripts: NHWS is an often used source of data for outcomes researchers to construct Posters and/or Manuscripts.
• SELECT: These are studies which involve recontacting patients who completed NHWS to ask custom questions to add to the rich NHWS data to answer specific questions about those patients.
• SOLVE: This are custom analyses of the NHWS, with reports prepared to answer specific business and marketing questions.

All of this is discussed in greater detail at the NHWS' new website, www.NHWSurvey.com.

About Consumer Health Sciences:
Consumer Health Sciences was founded in 1996 with the mission of bridging the gap between outcomes research and marketing by gathering in-depth survey information from consumers. The foundation of the company, the National Health and Wellness Survey, was first launched in 1998, and provides a unique look into the healthcare market from the viewpoint of the consumer in over 75 therapeutic categories.

For more information, go to www.consumerhealthsciences.com

About The Ziment Group:
The Ziment Group is the global healthcare research brand for The Kantar Group, the Information and Consultancy Division of WPP, plc

It consists of Ziment, a full service consultancy offering custom marketing research for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries worldwide; WebSurveyResearch which houses the largest dedicated panel of physicians with which to conduct marketing research through the internet in the world; imap Research, a division dedicated to conducting multi-client research in the pharmaceutical industry, and Consumer Health Sciences, which became part of the group in April 2005.

For more information on The Ziment Group, go to www.zimentgroup.com.