By Mayo Clinic Staff. The quad screen â also known as the quadruple marker test, the second trimester screen or simply the quad test â is a prenatal test that measures levels of four substances in a pregnant woman's blood: Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), a protein made by the developing baby.
Georgia Engel who played Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Georgia Engel was born in Washington, D. C. in July 1948. She is best known for playing the role of Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She is also known more recently for playing Pat Macdougall on Everybody Loves Raymond.
She later was nominated for an Oscar for her role in 1980's Ordinary People. ( 1 CNN)Actress Mary Tyler Moore, whose eponymous 1970s series helped usher in a new era for women on television, died Wednesday at the age of 80, her longtime representative Mara Buxbaum said.