Martha Porado

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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

7/31/2024
In other news 2024 archive: Top stories for physicians
Your one-stop-shop for global headlines for physicians on the clinical to the political, and everything in between!

Martha Porado
7/30/2024
Cut it out: CFPC wants DTC forms off family docs' books for good
The College of Family Physicians of Canada wants to get the 16-page Disability Tax Credit off doctors' piles—and suggests people applying for the DTC should be able to self-attest.

Martha Porado
7/28/2024
RECALL: Various lots of multivitamins and supplements may contain metal fibres
The supplements are sold under a wide variety of brand names including: Kirkland Signature, Life, Option+, Webber Naturals, Wellness by London Drugs, Equate, Wellquest, VegiDay, and Natural Factors.

Martha Porado
7/25/2024
B.C.’s top doctor ends four-year COVID-19 public health emergency
Dr. Bonnie Henry said Friday that all remaining restrictions, including the vaccination requirement for healthcare workers, will be rescinded.

Martha Porado
7/25/2024
Ontario expanding access to RSV vaccines for young children, pregnant women
In late 2022, Ontario’s four main pediatric hospitals became overwhelmed with really sick young children, a situation that forced them to cancel surgeries and redeploy staff to intensive care units and emergency departments.

Martha Porado
7/25/2024
Nova Scotia verifying accuracy of lengthy family medicine wait-list
Nova Scotia Health are telephoning the roughly 160,000 people on the registry to make sure they know how to access ‘different options for care.’

Martha Porado
7/25/2024
As ticks move north, Canadian doctors need to watch for more than just Lyme
Blacklegged ticks are disease vectors carrying infections you might know less about.

Martha Porado
7/25/2024
POLL: Doctor, do you take supplements?
Supplements can be incredibly useful for treating patients, for everything from gut health to peripheral neuropathy.

Martha Porado
7/24/2024
POLL: Doctors, what do you think of the OMA's comments on Ontario's potential expanded scope for pharmacists
Ontario is once again thinking of expanding what its pharmacists are able to do—but the Ontario Medical Association wasted no time in criticizing the announcement. What do you think?

Martha Porado
7/22/2024
‘Clamping down’: CMA draft policy has strong words on charging user fees, dual practice and more
The draft of ‘Managing the Public–Private Interface to Support Quality Care’ discusses major improvements governments across Canada need to make in the coming years.

Martha Porado