Martha Porado

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

6/23/2025
BADCLAP: CPhA highlights resource of key heat and medication reminders
The poster reminds healthcare pros of drug mechanisms to keep in mind when it's blazing hot out.

Martha Porado
6/23/2025
Which specialists are most likely to quit?
U.S. data compiled by the AMA sheds light on which specialists are expressing intent to leave their current jobs and which are most likely to stay put.

Martha Porado
6/16/2025
ISMP Canada updates its ‘Do Not Use’ list
Originally launched in 2006, the list aims to help pharmacies and other healthcare organizations by highlighting dangerous abbreviations, symbols and dose designations to avoid.

Martha Porado
6/1/2025
5 takeaways from StatsCan’s latest report on girls and young women’s mental health
Where are young girls and women getting help? What kind of help are they getting? And what kind of women and girls are more likely to successfully access that help?

Martha Porado
5/28/2025
Have measles outbreaks shifted public opinion on mandatory vaccination?
Comparing 2024 and 2025, a recent poll shows a dramatic shift.

Martha Porado
5/27/2025
How pharmacists work on the frontlines with Doctors Without Borders
Sam Okeyo, project pharmacy manager for Doctors without borders (MSF), in South Africa discusses the role pharmacists play there—and outlines the federation's Humanitarian Competency Framework.

Martha Porado
5/27/2025
Emergency, hospitalist, addictions medicine, anything but a traditional family clinic
A new study shows the number of family physicians vs. population in Ontario has been on the rise in the past 30 years—but a smaller proportion of them are actually practicing comprehensive family doctors.

Martha Porado
5/27/2025
New primary care clinic at St. Joe’s in London to focus on patients who’ve experienced trauma, violence
St. Joseph’s Health Care London says the Trauma and Violence Specialized Primary Care Clinic will be the first of its kind in Canada.

Martha Porado
5/26/2025
Divide . . . and then what? Four ministers now dealing with health in Alberta alongside the four new agencies post-AHS breakup

Martha Porado
5/22/2025
Did you miss Doctors of BC’s webinar of estate planning strategies for physicians
Check out the recording of the webinar here!

Martha Porado