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Canada Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Canada with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Canada Health News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Canada.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ca&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 223020,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0f6ca75ee586fb1431c55d1796ceb241",
            "title": "Eating fewer foods of concern may protect the heart beyond pills",
            "description": "A prospective cohort study in adults with hypertension and or hypercholesterolemia found that lower intake of ultra processed foods or foods flagged by front of pack nutrition warnings was associated with reduced cardiovascular disease risk. These associations persisted regardless of cardioprotective medication use, suggesting dietary quality contributes independently to cardiovascular prevention.",
            "content": "New evidence suggests that improving dietary quality complements cardioprotective medications, reinforcing diet as a central pillar of cardiovascular disease prevention.\nStudy: Foods of concern, cardiopreventive medication use and risk of cardiovascu... [6684 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260210/Eating-fewer-foods-of-concern-may-protect-the-heart-beyond-pills.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/images/news/ImageForNews_830181_17707788752452660.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-11T03:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7acefa8978a3deefa6739502b63367ea",
            "title": "Study suggests shingles vaccine may help lower Alzheimer’s and dementia risk",
            "description": "A large observational electronic health record study found that older adults receiving the recombinant zoster vaccine showed substantially lower rates of diagnosed dementia compared with matched unvaccinated individuals. The association persisted after multiple sensitivity analyses, although causality remains unproven and longer follow-up is required given the long latency of dementia.",
            "content": "New real-world evidence links shingles vaccination with reduced dementia risk, raising important questions about viral triggers, inflammation, and future prevention strategies.\nStudy: Recombinant zoster vaccine is associated with a reduced risk of de... [5342 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260210/Study-suggests-shingles-vaccine-may-help-lower-Alzheimere28099s-and-dementia-risk.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/images/news/ImageForNews_830177_17707774330738090.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-11T02:38:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d27adaa6da8b7aa756ec50f42050af9f",
            "title": "Whooping cough cases reported in the Yukon",
            "description": "Residents are advised to watch for symptoms and seek care",
            "content": "An increasing number of whooping cough cases are being reported in the Yukon.\nThe Chief Medical Officer of Health (CMOH) and Yukon Communicable Disease Control (YCDC)issued a warning to residents to watch for symptoms of Pertussis (also known as whoo... [2667 chars]",
            "url": "https://yukon-news.com/2026/02/10/whooping-cough-cases-reported-in-the-yukon/",
            "image": "https://yukon-news.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2026/02/41560540_web1_towfiqu-barbhuiya-c-zwltpserc-unsplash.jpg?w=1024",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-11T00:02:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "83f4a38d2b99a631cbeed15eef738db3",
                "name": "Yukon News",
                "url": "https://yukon-news.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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