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

9/16/2025
Ontario in talks with OCP on expanding pharmacist scope of practice to the tune of 14 new ailments
A release on Wednesday said the government has ‘provided direction’ to the Ontario College of Pharmacists with a view to making the necessary regulatory changes.

Martha Porado
9/3/2025
The CPhA wants to see gov't regulate PBMs—so it drafted template legislation itself
Released Thursday, the template lays out definitions of key entities and suggests regulations surrounding patient choice, prohibition of interference in the pharmacist-patient relationship, transaction fees audits and more.

Martha Porado
8/20/2025
‘No pricing updates to share for Canadian patients,’ Eli Lilly says in wake of U.K. price hike for Mounjaro
The type 2 diabetes medication is set to rise in price in the U.K.

Martha Porado
8/18/2025
New COVID-19 shot approved by Health Canada focuses on LP.8.1 variant
The variant was declared a variant under monitoring by the WHO in early 2025.

Martha Porado
8/7/2025
POLL: Do you charge for paperwork associated with paramedical services?
Insurance companies sometimes require a doctor’s note to cover services like massage or physiotherapy. Do you charge for providing this paperwork?

Martha Porado
7/31/2025
B.C. expanding access to free HPV vaccines
The province is also shifting the dose schedule as of the end of July from two doses to one dose for people ages nine to 20.

Martha Porado
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