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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": 234348,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "09093d8395bcfeed376094314482e51f",
            "title": "Improving your biological age gap is associated with better brain health",
            "description": "Highlights: Improving the gap between your biological age and your actual age is associated with a lower risk of stroke and better brain health. The study...",
            "content": "Highlights:\nImproving the gap between your biological age and your actual age is associated with a lower risk of stroke and better brain health.\nThe study involved 250,000 people. Researchers measured 18 biomarkers in their blood to determine their b... [5091 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/improving-your-biological-age-gap-is-associated-with-better-brain-health-302706078.html",
            "image": "https://www.prnewswire.com/content/dam/prnewswire/icons/2019-Q4-PRN-Icon-32-32.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-05T22:36:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4e4307a07d2ce1e31acaf932954d3dd9",
                "name": "PR Newswire",
                "url": "https://www.prnewswire.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "081ea6c731f4e87fafec484577f38c84",
            "title": "Expanding precision care for patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease",
            "description": "Sunnybrook’s Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program and Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation are expanding access to deep brain stimulation (DBS) for patients with…",
            "content": "Sunnybrook’s Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program and Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation are expanding access to deep brain stimulation (DBS) for patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease in Toronto. DBS is an approved standard of care for Parkinson’s wh... [2686 chars]",
            "url": "https://sunnybrook.ca/2026/03/expanding-precision-care-for-patients-with-advanced-parkinsons-disease/",
            "image": "https://sunnybrook.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Deep-Brain-Stimulation_190207_316-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-05T22:27:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6fae560f15e8158636003e87bcb0230a",
                "name": "Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre",
                "url": "https://sunnybrook.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8d7648e9b5902f719cdb6cae75c67382",
            "title": "'To get to the truth'",
            "description": "Holder of the Canada Research Chair in Precision Medicine Data Analysis, Marie-Pierre Dubé has spent 2 decades researching people's response to drug treatment and why women react differently from men.",
            "content": "Marie-Pierre Dubé has award-winning expertise in genetic epidemiology, biostatistics, pharmacogenomics and cardiology – and that's not all.\nIn an academic career spanning two decades, the Université de Montréal medical professor has published close t... [5011 chars]",
            "url": "https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2026/03/05/to-get-to-the-truth",
            "image": "https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/public/nouvelles/_processed_/0/e/csm_20260305_marie-pierre-dube_51bb718b77.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-05T22:22:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "777cb3f92d798a8666b43224ef6b9b5d",
                "name": "Université de Montréal",
                "url": "https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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