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

1/20/2026
What’s bringing the mood down? Canadians are getting more pessimistic about aging: survey
One geriatrician discusses how the health and other factors can overlap.

Martha Porado
1/20/2026
Union calls on Manitoba to address shortage of respiratory therapists in hospitals
‘What it boils down to is they are not even at this point meeting their baseline staffing requirements.’

Martha Porado
1/19/2026
This Toronto hospital is set to double its housing program—but how much has it reduced ER visits?
Those leading the program say it not only reduced ER visits significantly, but also lowered the length of those that did occur.

Martha Porado
1/19/2026
Reports of ‘AI psychosis’ are emerging—here’s what a psychiatric clinician has to say
Large language models and chatbots are widely accessible, and often framed as supportive, empathic or even therapeutic. For most users, these systems are helpful or, at worst, benign.

Martha Porado
1/19/2026
NDP leader calls for centralized command structure to be returned to Alta. health system
Hospitals Minister Matt Jones has said the province doesn’t need to declare an emergency because it has the necessary tools, and its agencies are working to address hospital pressures.

Martha Porado
1/19/2026
Canadians are skipping flu jabs for surprising reasons
The death of Prashant Sreekumar made headlines across Canada when the 43-year-old father of three died in the emergency room of Edmonton’s Grey Nuns hospital after waiting for eight hours with chest pains.

Martha Porado
1/19/2026
Spot the difference? ISMP Canada highlights two very similar vials
Always on the lookout for look-alikes, recent reports have highlighted a case of very similar packaging.

Martha Porado
1/19/2026
Check out Alberta's new health data dashboard
Where is the province above average on surgery waits and where is it falling behind?

Martha Porado
1/18/2026
What ‘war on protein’?
Protein just got a big boost from U.S. health officials. in their latest dietary guidelines. But nutritionists say Americans are already consuming more than they need.

Martha Porado
1/18/2026
Squamish physician introduces new skin tightening technology to Canada
Aesthetic surgery isn’t for everyone. It is especially for those who want an enhancement, rather than a full transformation. This is what Dr. Willem Gouws assures his patients, in consultation over advanced radiofrequency medical skin tightening, a non-surgical procedure newly available on the Canadian market.

Martha Porado