Davidson Promoted at MBS/Vox.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- MBS/Vox, the research-based consultancy unit of CommonHealth specializing in the analysis of physician-patient communication, today announced the promotion of Brad Davidson to vice president, account group director.

CommonHealth (www.commonhealth.com) is the world's leading healthcare-communications network and a WPP Group (NASDAQ/ADR: WPPGY; www.wpp.com) company. MBS/Vox provides several proprietary research methodologies including Managing the Dialogue, linguistic analyses based on "real world" office visits. Currently, the Managing the Dialogue database contains over 2,000 physician-patient visits in 26 therapeutic categories.

In this new role, Mr. Davidson will direct research projects, publish and present study results, and work collaboratively across all disciplines at CommonHealth including medical education, direct-to-consumer and direct-to-patient communication, and customer relationship marketing. His involvement will produce a full spectrum of marketing/communications solutions as well as provide strategic thinking on new business development.

Mr. Davidson joined MBS/Vox two years ago following his tenure at Lexicon Branding in Sausalito, Calif., as a principal researcher. Mr. Davidson holds a doctorate in linguistics from Stanford University and did a post doctorate fellowship at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, studying communication and end-of-life care.

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