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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": 210500,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "47f64d7b8c13c98ebafca9ed634bd33d",
            "title": "Comment les aliments ultratransformés nous rendent malades",
            "description": "La consommation d’aliments ultratransformés est de plus en plus associée aux maladies chroniques : obésité, diabète, dépression… Ce type de nourriture nuit à l’organisme par des mécanismes biologique…",
            "content": "Les cookies et technologies similaires que nous utilisons sur Mediapart sont de différentes natures et nous permettent de poursuivre différentes finalités.\nCertains sont nécessaires au fonctionnement du site et de l’application mobile (vous ne pouvez... [447 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecologie/291125/comment-les-aliments-ultratransformes-nous-rendent-malades",
            "image": "https://static.mediapart.fr/etmagine/og/journal/files/2025/11/28/251128-img-eclats-de-sciences-106.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-29T09:04:35Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "787bdc484a6b8dc1c1340a05b6b0cafe",
                "name": "Mediapart",
                "url": "https://www.mediapart.fr"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3b0d653039a7590200b8d3687547ac13",
            "title": "Flu vaccines take months to make. Here's what could speed it up",
            "description": "For decades, the flu virus in the shots you’re offered every fall has been grown in chicken eggs. Now, scientists are trying more modern methods of developing vaccines that they hope will be even more effective.",
            "content": "This story is part of CBC Health's Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.\nFor decades, the flu virus in the sh... [6485 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-vaccine-eggs-second-opinion-9.6996584",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/c270abfb-3530-4439-8a30-f08f436fcadc,1764357862599/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%2826%2C164%2C1888%2C1062%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-29T09:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c67bf65c03c51fcf1260866395d402ff",
            "title": "How to navigate the flu season this winter",
            "description": "Winter is a peak season for respiratory infectious diseases. While influenza infections remained low in most of the northern hemisphere, according to the World Health Organization, some nations such as Japan and the UK are experiencing an early wave",
            "content": "Winter is a peak season for respiratory infectious diseases. While influenza infections remained low in most of the northern hemisphere, according to the World Health Organization, some nations such as Japan and the UK are experiencing an early wave ... [1882 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-11-29/How-to-navigate-the-flu-season-this-winter-1IH3hV8YJdC/p.html",
            "image": "https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-11-29/How-to-navigate-the-flu-season-this-winter-1IH3hV8YJdC/img/583472f33eef49e29f9f0f42f7c9d13b/583472f33eef49e29f9f0f42f7c9d13b-1920.png",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-29T08:45:16Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "83319eaf697a59d2b64031a647c15cb1",
                "name": "news.cgtn.com",
                "url": "https://news.cgtn.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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