CommonHealth Receives the Human Services Award.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- CommonHealth today announced that it has received the CancerCare Human Services Award in recognition of its ongoing support to the CancerCare organization in its contribution to patients who face the disease. CancerCare is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people face the psychosocial challenges associated with a cancer diagnosis and its treatment.

CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com) is the world's leading healthcare-communications network and a WPP Group (NASDAQ/ADR: WPPGY; www.wpp.com) company.

The Human Services Awards recognize leaders in business, fashion, media and science that have been in the forefront of the fight against cancer through their support of CancerCare. Over the past four years, CommonHealth's contributions to the organization have included collaborative efforts across three of its units. A team comprising individuals from two of the three units, Altum and Ferguson, advertising and promotion agencies located in Parsippany, has created a unified brand image and message platform for internal and external newsletters, professional advertisements and educational materials as a pro bono service. Members from both of these agencies continue to provide branding expertise to help further CancerCare's marketing objectives and raise awareness of their important services, while members of the third unit, Conectics, CommonHealth's media planning services group located in Morristown, continue to work closely with publishers to provide free media placements for CancerCare.

"Our agency teams have coordinated marketing efforts between the creative, media, consumer, production and operations departments with the aim to create a communications plan that would help to make CancerCare a household name," noted David Chapman, managing partner of CommonHealth and president of Ferguson. "We are proud and honored to contribute to this wonderful cause, and we're humbled that CancerCare feels us worthy of this recognition," he concluded.

The largest national nonprofit organization of its kind, CancerCare provides free professional support services including counseling, education, financial aid and practical help to people across the country. Since its inception in 1944, CancerCare has offered assistance to more than two million people with cancer, their family members and friends, as well as healthcare professionals. CancerCare's services are available to people of all ages, with all types of cancer and at any stage of the disease. More information about CancerCare can be found online at www.cancercare.org or by calling 1-800-813-HOPE.

CommonHealth comprises Altum, Ferguson, Conectics, Adient, Carbon, HLS, MBS/Vox, Noesis, ProCom, Qi, Quantum, Solara and Xchange. The organization also maintains numerous partnerships both within and outside of the WPP Group network of companies.