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Canada Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Canada with our JSON API.

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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": 207166,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1ca24bab44eebc1af4dcc5f02133b403",
            "title": "This Common Drug Seems to Fight One of The Deadliest Brain Cancers",
            "description": "Hydralazine has been used to treat high blood pressure for many decades, even though it's never been exactly clear how it works.",
            "content": "Hydralazine has been used to treat high blood pressure for many decades, even though it's never been exactly clear how it works. Now a new study answers some key questions about the medication – and adds an intriguing new link to brain cancer.\nTaking... [3306 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/this-common-drug-seems-to-fight-one-of-the-deadliest-brain-cancers",
            "image": "https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/11/brain-cancer.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-28T02:02:57Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "76a2943c768c5c3be7d790e609b40403",
                "name": "ScienceAlert",
                "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5555d048bdab3359b1f4f48a05fcfa97",
            "title": "B.C. universities work together to reveal how superbugs spread in hospitals",
            "description": "Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria could kill 39 million people by 2050",
            "content": "Researchers at UFV and SFU are teaming up to try and revolutionize the way that scientists and health-care professionals tackle the problem of superbugs.\nThese superbugs are strains of bacteria or other microbes that have become resistant to most med... [1787 chars]",
            "url": "https://vicnews.com/2025/11/27/b-c-universities-work-together-to-reveal-how-superbugs-spread-in-hospitals/",
            "image": "https://vicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/cropped-7cT9E_JC_400x400.jpg?w=32",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-27T23:33:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "658f42fff787fb7994a8979d96da27be",
                "name": "Victoria News",
                "url": "https://vicnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "beca6d43788286692aa133730ba8b479",
            "title": "L’actualité des IST",
            "description": "Par la Dr Alexandra Clerget (clinique Rhône Durance, Avignon), dans le cadre de la matinale Généraliste du congrès français d’urologie (22 novembre 2025) INTRODUCTION La France observe une recrudescence marquée des IST, tant chez les hommes que chez les femmes, quelle que soit leur orientation sexuelle (1), avec pour certaines bactéries l’émergence de résistances aux antibiotiques.",
            "content": "Par la Dr Alexandra Clerget (clinique Rhône Durance, Avignon), dans le cadre de la matinale Généraliste du congrès français d’urologie (22 novembre 2025)\nINTRODUCTION\nLa France observe une recrudescence marquée des IST, tant chez les hommes que chez ... [8088 chars]",
            "url": "http://www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr/fmc-recos/lactualite-des-ist",
            "image": "https://drupal-images-js-docs.s3.rbx.io.cloud.ovh.net/qdm/prod/s3fs-public/styles/gps_large/public/images/2025/11/9ef3800c-001d-4a72-8c57-80af3056c6f7.jpeg?VersionId=1764237460.674889&itok=hoYAp2mF",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-27T23:22:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "7f48d84b13c0494a07381b0fc7c4d71f",
                "name": "lequotidiendumedecin.fr",
                "url": "http://www.lequotidiendumedecin.fr"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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