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

8/10/2026
A critical piece: New research establishes pharmacy’s economic footprint in Canada
Proof of community pharmacy’s value in healthcare steadily grows. Now we have proof of the sector’s value to the economy as well, writes Rosalind Stefanac in this article re-published from the Neighbourhood Pharmacies' quarterly publication, The Gazette.

Martha Porado
8/10/2026
Getting passed the ‘c-word’: Should GG1 prostate disease even be called ‘cancer’?
‘PSA testing should be as routine as colonoscopy, but colonoscopy only works because we don’t call colon polyps ‘cancers.’’

Martha Porado
8/9/2026
New protocol update for hypertension
INESSS is updating its national medical protocol and group prescription template for medication adjustment and monitoring in adults with primary hypertension, and releasing a new guide for clinicians.

Martha Porado
8/9/2026
Comparing different treatment approaches to laryngopharyngeal reflux disease
Finally, a study is directly comparing primary therapeutic options for this gastro ailment.

Martha Porado
8/6/2026
QUIZ: Updated obsessive-compulsive disorder guidelines
The Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments and the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders have teamed up to provide a comprehensive new guideline for the management of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Martha Porado
8/4/2026
From student to preceptor: Being on the other side of experiential rotations
Looking back on my pharmacy school days, I remember my experiential rotations all too well.

Martha Porado
8/4/2026
Can I get a witness? B.C. PharmaCare clarifies policies for PAs, methadone
The province is clarifying which healthcare professionals can do what and when to be eligible for these fees.

Martha Porado
8/3/2026
Beyond funding: Why Alberta should start preserving the stories behind pharmacy care now
As I reflected on the new new Pharmacy Funding Framework agreement, I found myself thinking about a different challenge.

Martha Porado
7/30/2026
The chart
Difficult. Hostile. Uncooperative. Missed appointments.

Martha Porado
7/30/2026
Pinky promise
Tears streamed down my face. There was a dim light somewhere in the distance—faint and flickering. I could see it, and I was desperate to reach it. But my body would not move; it lay unresponsive, as if it no longer belonged to me.

Martha Porado