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": 279968,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0a2fa369dd4848922ed0ade96ae913f8",
            "title": "What Canadian aid workers face in the Ebola outbreak ravaging the Congo",
            "description": "Canadian aid workers who have been responding to Ebola outbreaks for decades, some who are on their way to the region or heading there in the coming days, say this epidemic is different.",
            "content": "People just keep coming. They know they have Ebola.\nSome have converged at the gate of the Doctors Without Borders office in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Others travelled more than 1,000 kilometres to... [4162 chars]",
            "url": "https://cheknews.ca/what-canadian-aid-workers-face-in-the-ebola-outbreak-ravaging-the-congo-1325760/",
            "image": "https://i0.wp.com/cheknews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/c1a23b24-1660-4558-876e-55f2fe08bca5-scaled-e1779399667705.jpg?fit=2560%2C1442&ssl=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-21T22:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "51192d0d0d80b340629793791612a00c",
                "name": "CHEK News",
                "url": "https://cheknews.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2ff376d8e58ffebead55a2c607e16fa4",
            "title": "Montreal breaks record for Lyme disease cases",
            "description": "The entire island of Montreal was considered endemic in 2024.",
            "content": "Montreal public health recorded its highest number of cases of Lyme disease ever in 2025.\nThe agency recorded a total of 161 cases, 61 of which (38 per cent) were believed to have become infected in Montreal. Its annual report, published Wednesday, c... [5553 chars]",
            "url": "https://montrealgazette.com/news/montreal-breaks-record-for-lyme-disease-cases/",
            "image": "https://montrealgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/139234_278489862.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-21T21:24:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a27b75f5edcb9a8e875f9905b0f24199",
                "name": "Montreal Gazette",
                "url": "https://montrealgazette.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "83f44a601f20ea5ac166b4839ed22029",
            "title": "Should Canada consider travel bans like U.S. is doing amid Ebola outbreak?",
            "description": "Currently, the Canadian government advises Canadians to avoid all travel to Ituri and North Kivu provinces, citing safety and security concerns.",
            "content": "After U.S. travel restrictions stemming from the Ebola outbreak forced a commercial flight to divert to Montreal while carrying a passenger from one of the countries facing those new rules, Canadians may be wondering whether Canada should impose its ... [5561 chars]",
            "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11859016/should-canada-consider-travel-bans-amid-ebola-outbreak/",
            "image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/person-getting-on-plane-e1779385401961.jpg?quality=65&strip=all&w=720&h=379&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-21T20:35:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a301f1a787ffad153a758085184d4bbb",
                "name": "Global News",
                "url": "https://globalnews.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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