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Ziment's Internet Research Panel of Patients with Chronic Illnesses Surpasses 200,000 Members

NEW YORK, May 19, 2003 - Ziment, an industry leader in global healthcare marketing research, has announced that it's on-line panel facilitating fast access to the opinions of patients suffering from a wide range of chronic illnesses has exceeded 200,000 members.

The Ziment Chronic illness panel has added to the company's Internet research capabilities by providing its clients with the ability to easily find low incidence patient groups. Combined with Ziment's physician Internet panel, clients can conduct studies with both physicians and patients using the speed and large sample power of Internet research.

"Our chronic illness panel gives our clients access to a vast number of patients with specific disease states that can ordinarily be difficult to find and interview," explained Howard Ziment, Chief Executive Officer of Ziment. "Internet-based research is time-efficient, cost-effective and allows patients to speak more freely about their disease."

The panel profiles close to 100 different chronic illnesses among a nationally balanced panel of patients.

"This terrific resource has helped to keep Ziment on the cutting edge of healthcare Internet research," said Ziment. "It is a high quality panel of respondents who have opted in to conduct research. This ensures high response rates and high quality data, the building blocks for great marketing research leading to superior business intellect."

As the founding member of WebSurveyResearch, which specializes in collecting opinions from healthcare professionals through the Internet, Ziment is a pioneer in conducting research within the healthcare arena. WebSurveyResearch includes WebSurveyMD, the largest dedicated on-line panel of physicians with over 37,000 physicians worldwide.

"The Internet is not about the future of our industry," added Ziment, "it is about today. Ziment is proud to have all the tools in place to serve our clients in this new frontier."

About Ziment:
Ziment is a global marketing research company based in New York City. It is the healthcare research brand of the Kantar Group, WPP's Information and Consultancy Division. For over 25 years Ziment has offered full service marketing research primarily to the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. More information about Ziment is available at www.ziment.com.

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