Martha Porado

Editor, Canadian Healthcare Network

Author Profile

Martha Porado is a Toronto-based award-winning reporter and editor specializing in healthcare, science, business and political journalism. She is the editor of the Canadian Healthcare Network, prior to which she was the managing editor of the Medical Post and Pharmacy Practice + Business.

Her previous roles include associate editor of Benefits Canada magazine, where she specialized in institutional investment news. Her byline can also be found in many other Canadian publications, including Advisor’s Edge, Investment Executive, the Canadian Investment Review, Canadian Insurance Top Broker, Canadian Grocer, Now Magazine and the now defunct Vice. Prior to focusing on print and digital publishing, she worked at BNN Bloomberg’s downtown Toronto newsroom as a broadcast associate and production coordinator for live news broadcasts. She fondly remembers screening call-in questions for its popular Market Call program.

When she is not editing copy on new clinical research or putting together tomorrow’s Doctor Daily newsletter, she can be found watering her ceiling-scraping houseplants, driving around with antique furniture peeking out of her hatchback, or bragging about how she’s definitely seen more movies than you have.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

10/22/2026
We're hearing more about rabies in the news. Here's what to know about the virus
Between January and September of this year, 397 laboratory-confirmed rabies cases in animals were reported to the CFIA. In 2025, there were 281 cases in the entire year.

Martha Porado
10/22/2026
Beyond the 4% rule: Looking at how much doctors need to retire
The 4% rule has been popularized as a simple way to answer this critical question. It may be useful or misleading. Understanding how it works will help you to tell the difference.

Martha Porado
10/21/2026
The business of medicine
By leveraging AI scribes, automated inboxes and smart vendor negotiations, this is how one virtual psychiatrist saves time and money.

Martha Porado
10/21/2026
‘Race to the door’
Court confirms staff can detain and sedate violent, mentally ill patients before filling in paperwork.

Martha Porado
10/20/2026
N.L. spent $32.1 million in 2.5 years on private virtual healthcare services
Dr. David Metcalfe, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association, says the expansion of Teladoc’s services is a symptom of an unsolved doctor shortage.

Martha Porado
10/20/2026
Plasma collection company Grifols gradually reopening locations
Barcelona-based Grifols says its phased reopening, which began Tuesday, includes one site in Winnipeg and another in Edmonton, with both under enhanced Health Canada oversight.

Martha Porado
10/20/2026
Sex toys aren’t just for fun. They can be adaptive tools for disabled and chronically ill people
Conversations about sex after illness, disease or the onset of disability tend to stall on the same question: How far does the sex you’re having now fall short of the sex you used to have?

Martha Porado
10/20/2026
Share (if you dare!) your Halloween costume ideas!
Have you had some ghoulish costume successes over the years? We want to see!

Martha Porado
10/17/2026
Sleep Banking: Can you store surplus sleep for withdrawal later?
Why managing sleep debt and mastering fatigue countermeasures are the real key to surviving night shifts.

Martha Porado
10/15/2026
The uncomfortable questions not answered by Alberta’s referendum
The consequence’s of Monday’s vote could put Alberta MDs in some confusing situations—and past CMA president Dr. Alika Lafontaine says he’s rarely seen morale so low.

Martha Porado
10/13/2026
QUIZ: Take a shot at reducing vaccine distress
With fall vaccination season rapidly approaching, a team of Canadian healthcare professionals has released an extensive guideline on reducing the needle-related pain and fear that both children and adults can experience.

Martha Porado
10/13/2026
Beyond survival: This cutting edge implant aims to help men reclaim their dignity after pelvic cancers
A surgical team at Duke Health in Durham, North Carolina, has performed the first U.S. implantation of an investigational remote-controlled artificial urinary sphincter.

Martha Porado