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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": 203420,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ec70b6d4febe20ab6cdd595ad0583461",
            "title": "U of A-led research suggests new culprit in mad cow disease",
            "description": "Groundbreaking research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded proteins — a discovery that sheds new light on the devastating outbreak in the United Kingdom 40 years ago and provides new hope for prevention.",
            "content": "Groundbreaking research led by the University of Alberta challenges the belief that mad cow disease is caused only by misfolded proteins — a discovery that sheds new light on the devastating outbreak in the United Kingdom 40 years ago and provides ne... [5133 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/12/u-of-a-led-research-suggests-new-culprit-in-mad-cow-disease.html",
            "image": "https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/media-library/2025/12/251201-bse-burim-ametaj-teaser-16x9-1600.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-01T08:10:13Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6f3781ecf93f5774111432af83548cf8",
                "name": "University of Alberta",
                "url": "https://www.ualberta.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9134ef6762cfb0c64bf5a6125739e3a7",
            "title": "HIV warning to older women as infections increase",
            "description": "The Blue Sky Trust charity reacts to a rise in HIV infections among heterosexual women.",
            "content": "Women aged in their 50s and 60s have been urged to practise safe sex after a rise in new cases of HIV in heterosexual groups.\nAs World Aids Day is marked, campaigners say women in this age group could be at greater risk of catching the virus because ... [2503 chars]",
            "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hiv-warning-older-women-infections-074820304.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Yc6GAx78A_wm1n9tGt.VsQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bbc_us_articles_995/b862efe2516969e2baa3d7270ddd131c",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-01T07:48:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a2b63f17a2f88eb6115cf6b743dcd1e5",
                "name": "Yahoo News Canada",
                "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "66aec57c02e404ce809600961e7c7d1a",
            "title": "VIH : qui est Françoise-Barré Sinoussi, la virologue dévouée et méconnue qui a codécouvert le virus du sida ?",
            "description": "Françoise-Barré Sinoussi, 78 ans, est un visage peu connu de la lutte contre le sida. Pourtant, cette virologue et présidente du Sidaction, qui a reçu un prix Nobel en 2008, a participé à la découverte du VIH en 1983.",
            "content": "Elle se bat contre le sida depuis des décennies. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, âgée aujourd'hui de 78 ans, a dédié sa vie à la recherche au sein de l'Institut Pasteur. Même le jour de son mariage, cette virologue passionnée a failli rater son rendez-vous... [3274 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rtl.fr/actu/sante/vih-qui-est-francoise-barre-sinoussi-la-virologue-devouee-et-meconnue-qui-a-codecouvert-le-virus-du-sida-7900572669",
            "image": "https://images.rtl.fr/~c/2000v2000/rtl/www/1799177-francoise-barre-sinoussi.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-01T07:39:48Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "f0a80bd15d73a38c8042509519a85500",
                "name": "RTL.fr",
                "url": "https://www.rtl.fr"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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