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

12/3/2025
Hims & Hers acquires Montreal-based Livewell
A major telehealth provider in the U.S., Hims & Hers Health Inc. has bought the Canadian company to expand.

Martha Porado
11/27/2025
UPDATED: Court order stays Ontario gov't policy on residency applicants needing Ontario high school for first CaRMs round
Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Divisional Court) has stayed the policy on an 'interim interim' basis, while future resident hopefuls wait to hear whether they should proceed with their applications.

Martha Porado
11/17/2025
POLL: Are you having trouble getting your hands on enough vaccines to meet demand?
We want to hear what it's been like in your pharmacy so far this respiratory virus season.

Martha Porado
11/17/2025
CBC News investigation finds Shoppers billed Ontario $81.2 million for MedsCheck services over two fiscal years
CBC reporting found this total represented $8 million more than the six years prior combined.

Martha Porado
11/17/2025
‘Paying twice for healthcare’: CMA calls on Alberta to reconsider draft legislation that would allow doctors to provide public and private services
The association also called Quebec’s forays into private healthcare a ‘cautionary tale.’

Martha Porado
11/17/2025
Dr. Style: Are you a physician with a flair for fashion?
Are you a doctor with a unique sense or style? Do you wear your cultural identity on your sleeve? Do you keep it classic or are you decidedly modern?

Martha Porado
11/17/2025
The AMA just updated its uninsured services guide
Strictly available to members, the AMA has also updated two accompanying resources.

Martha Porado
10/16/2025
POLL: If licensure were nationalized, would you pick up and move?
There’s been a lot of talk this week about national licensure. But if barriers to your mobility were really swept away—what would you do?

Martha Porado
10/9/2025
POLL: Are Canada’s FPs looking for the exit?
We hear a lot about how frustrated family physicians are—but how many of them are actually looking to call it quits?

Martha Porado
10/7/2025
Things just got harder for some IMGs looking for a residency spot in Ontario
The Ontario government has decided that in order for IMGs to be eligible for Ontario-based IMG stream residency positions in the 2026 R-1 Main Residency Match, they need to have gone to high school in Ontario for at least two years.

Martha Porado
9/23/2025
Health Canada puts out advisory reassuring the public about acetaminophen
‘Health Canada currently maintains that there is no conclusive evidence that using acetaminophen as directed during pregnancy causes autism or other neurodevelopmental disorders.’

Martha Porado
9/18/2025
Pocketpills teams up with Novo Nordisk to deliver Ozempic or Wegovy straight to patients
Vince Lamanna, president of Novo Nordisk Canada Inc. noted the 'stigma people face when living with type 2 diabetes and obesity.'

Martha Porado