The group's principal activities are to provide integrated clinical research services. the group augments the research and development activities of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies by offering quality, value added clinical research services and proprietary information technology designed to reduce drug development time and expense. the group operates in two segments namely, contract research services group & the medical communications group. the contract research services group conducts clinical trial management, clinical data management, statistical analysis, medical writing, and regulatory consulting and representation. the medical communications group provides organizational, meeting management, and publication services to professional associations and pharmaceutical companies. contract research services accounted for 95% of 2001 revenues and medical communications, 5%.