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

10/15/2026
Five pearls for caring for patients with medical complexity
Make a point of reviewing the regimen whenever a complex patient’s care changes hands, rather than assuming what’s on file is correct and complete.

Martha Porado
10/13/2026
QUIZ: Take a shot at reducing distress around vaccines
With fall vaccination season rapidly approaching, a team of Canadian healthcare professionals has released an extensive guideline on reducing the needle-related pain and fear that both children and adults can experience.

Martha Porado
10/13/2026
QUIZ: Take a shot at reducing vaccine distress
With fall vaccination season rapidly approaching, a team of Canadian healthcare professionals has released an extensive guideline on reducing the needle-related pain and fear that both children and adults can experience.

Martha Porado
10/13/2026
Beyond survival: This cutting edge implant aims to help men reclaim their dignity after pelvic cancers
A surgical team at Duke Health in Durham, North Carolina, has performed the first U.S. implantation of an investigational remote-controlled artificial urinary sphincter.

Martha Porado
10/13/2026
A new therapy may be on the horizon to improve skin outcomes in patients with cutaneous lupus erythematosus
‘This is often a disease of young adults and this scarring lasts for the rest of their lives.’

Martha Porado
10/12/2026
POLL: The great coffee debate
Are you a dedicated home brewer—or do you relish an upscale, complicated caffein injection from a local spot?

Martha Porado
10/8/2026
Let us do more: Pharmacists Manitoba wants four shots added to pharmacists’ roster
Flu and COVID jabs clearly demonstrate the usefulness of pharmacies in vaccine uptake—but even though Manitoba is in the middle of a Hep A outbreak, pharmacists can't help out.

Martha Porado
10/8/2026
Taxes—hike them or hold them—become theme in B.C. election campaign
NDP Leader David Eby is proposing to suspend the gasoline taxes, while bringing in a new tax bracket for people making more than $1 million and increasing taxes on the two highest existing income brackets starting at about $190,000.

Martha Porado
10/7/2026
Standing tall in hate’s wake
The Indigenous Pharmacy Professionals of Canada experienced a multi-person virtual attack generally targeted at the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Martha Porado
10/7/2026
Are women better psychiatrists?
We live in a world where men are expected to be more assertive and women are assumed to be more nurturing, and so maybe we just see what we are looking for.

Martha Porado
10/7/2026
Does the Mediterranean diet have to be Mediterranean? Rethinking heart-healthy eating in multicultural Canada
When someone in cardiac rehabilitation is told to follow a Mediterranean diet, they most likely picture olive oil, salmon, nuts and colourful salads.

Martha Porado
10/7/2026
The diagnosis is not the conversation
In psychiatry, I have seen how a single word can feel like a verdict. Bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia. Borderline personality disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder.

Martha Porado