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

9/27/2026
Emergency meeting of health ministers to discuss federal funding ahead of budget
Provinces and territories have raised concerns about the federal budget, which forecasts an end to some targeted healthcare funding after March 2027.

Martha Porado
9/27/2026
StatCan says fertility rate remains at the all-time low seen the previous year
‘It’s not biological infertility, but it’s the social circumstances that are preventing them from having children.’

Martha Porado
9/27/2026
Handling patients with health anxiety
Regular check-ins, limiting unnecessary testing and building trust all help.

Martha Porado
9/24/2026
U.S. FDA panel endorses first-of-a-kind cancer blood test from Grail
‘Perhaps my yes is a hopeful rather than an accurate one,’ said Dr. Victor van Berkel of UofL Physicians in Louisville, Kentucky, describing how more research is needed even if the test is rolled out.

Martha Porado
9/23/2026
Grifols says plasma donor safety was not compromised as it works to regain licence
Health Canada halted all collections at Grifols’ Taylor Avenue location on Wednesday after it found compliance problems at the privately run clinic that pays for plasma donations.

Martha Porado
9/23/2026
Old exemption, new exposure: What directors of pre-1954 pharmacy corporations need to know
‘I was not involved’ is not a governance system and other hard truths that pharmacists fulfilling the director role need to keep in mind.

Martha Porado
9/23/2026
This Ontario hospital plans to cut hundreds of jobs amid province-directed budget plan
An internal hospital memo says the hospital network is looking at a $150 million deficit for 2026-27 and has put about 413 union and non-union jobs on the chopping block, with a third of those positions currently vacant.

Martha Porado
9/23/2026
Lead levels . . . in the air?
‘It’s a yellow flag. It piques our interest, it draws our attention and tells us it would be worth looking into further.’

Martha Porado
9/22/2026
Over 1,500 Quebec doctors call for coroner's inquest into suicides in profession
Five doctors in the province reportedly died by suicide over a five-month period this year.

Martha Porado
9/22/2026
New study compares vapers, smokers and non-smokers on several health points
Young people who vape or smoke cigarettes have reduced blood vessel functionality, breathing efficiency and exercise capacity compared to those who have never smoked or vaped, according to new research.

Martha Porado
9/21/2026
‘We didn't have her shade of lipstick’: Sad end to a bear encounter in a B.C. pharmacy
A pharmacy in Hope, B.C. got some rather unexpected customers last weekend.

Martha Porado
9/20/2026
Health officials issue rabies warning after skunk tests positive in B.C. Interior
Interior Health says interactions with skunks are extremely rare but officials have assessed and tested a small number of individuals who may have been exposed.

Martha Porado