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": 282998,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8234ce55c08dbfb4f18c0d6e314432fd",
            "title": "A Painful Side Effect of Statins Explained After Decades of Mystery",
            "description": "For millions of people, statins are a daily shield against heart disease.",
            "content": "For millions of people, statins are a daily shield against heart disease.\nBut around 10 percent of those who take statins to lower cholesterol experience a mysterious, painful side effect that causes many to discontinue these potentially life-saving ... [4222 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/a-painful-side-effect-of-statins-explained-after-decades-of-mystery",
            "image": "https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2026/02/man_with_muscle_pain_header.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T23:19:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "76a2943c768c5c3be7d790e609b40403",
                "name": "ScienceAlert",
                "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4f5f967a9dde40bb6d9a86305301c27f",
            "title": "Town hall to be held in Manitoba’s measles hot zone",
            "description": "Manitoba will hold a telephone town hall Wednesday night for residents of the health region with the highest number of measles cases in the province.",
            "content": "Manitoba will hold a telephone town hall Wednesday night for residents of the health region with the highest number of measles cases in the province.\nDr. Jazz Atwal, deputy chief provincial public health officer, will give an update on the outbreak a... [2037 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/2026/06/01/town-hall-to-be-held-in-manitobas-measles-hot-zone",
            "image": "https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/4274007_web1_20250507140540-20250507140528-681ba66f9ef77c106dc211d5jpeg_071841.JPG?w=1600",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T22:27:56Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "ce16c38b3c43eee5cdb95476a1f8c587",
                "name": "Winnipeg Free Press",
                "url": "https://www.winnipegfreepress.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "19aa34823928cd526de2dcd669f2d9c2",
            "title": "Invasive mosquitoes detected in Sea",
            "description": "Health officials in B.C. say invasive mosquitoes and a virus that can cause brain swelling in humans have been detected in the Sea-to-Sky region.",
            "content": "Health officials in British Columbia say invasive mosquitoes and a virus that can cause brain swelling in humans have been detected in the Sea-to-Sky region north of Vancouver, after an investigation triggered by a cluster of childhood encephalitis c... [1583 chars]",
            "url": "https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/01/invasive-mosquitoes-brain-swelling-virus-detected-sea-sky-region/",
            "image": "https://vancouver.citynews.ca/wp-content/blogs.dir/sites/9/2026/06/59a173647ca9aaba0219c4b32da2dd3735278605140736710d0bc1a635406406.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T22:22:13Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f02f7ee49c189e36ef9cc6af610da253",
                "name": "CityNews Vancouver",
                "url": "https://vancouver.citynews.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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