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

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
9/17/2025
Compensation increase awarded to Ontario physicians for years 2 to 4 of current PSA
The agreement between the province's physicians and its government also, ‘includes additional targeted investments that will address systemic healthcare delivery issues,’ according to a release from the Ontario Medical Association.

Martha Porado
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