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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": 217228,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "83905f2f7e4e1f3888ee1dc778a52a1e",
            "title": "WHO South-East Asia marks 15 years since the last case of wild poliovirus; polio legacy continues to drive broader public health gains",
            "description": "The World Health Organization today called for urgent scale-up of research, innovation, and collaboration to accelerate momentum towards ending tuberculosis in the WHO South-East Asia Region, which continues to bear nearly half of the global TB burden, accounting for the highest share of cases and deaths worldwide.\nTo build momentum, experts, national TB programme managers, researchers, along with partners and members of civil society, began a three-day virtual workshop organized by WHO for ‘Advancing research and Innovation to accelerate momentum towards ending TB in the WHO South-East Asia Region.’",
            "content": "Fifteen years after recording its last case of wild poliovirus, the WHO South-East Asia Region with a quarter of the world’s population, continues to sustain its polio-free status while harnessing innovations and lessons from the polio programme to a... [3583 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.who.int/southeastasia/news/detail/13-01-2026-south-east-asia-marks-15-years-since-the-last-case-of-wild-poliovirus-polio-legacy-continues-to-drive-broader-public-health-gains",
            "image": "https://www.who.int/images/default-source/searo---images/countries/timor-leste/nef_9241c6e4498464364a3e8d60e22deb82994f.tmb-1200v.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=6bde6f6d_5",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T05:15:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d00521712c77237b0d814b53cd7d67b0",
                "name": "World Health Organization (WHO)",
                "url": "https://www.who.int"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "129f9b76e9334720dae8bfc83c448eb3",
            "title": "2 southern Manitoba health centres among new measles exposure sites, province says",
            "description": "Public health officials are warning that members of the public may have been exposed to measles at several locations across southern Manitoba, including at two separate health centres last week.",
            "content": "Health officials are warning that members of the public may have been exposed to measles at several locations across southern Manitoba, including at two separate health centres last week.\nAnyone who was at the Harvest Christian Fellowship Church in P... [1798 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-measles-exposure-sites-9.7043103",
            "image": "https://i.cbc.ca/ais/1.7478844,1760798761398/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1280%2C720%29%3BResize%3D620",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T02:46:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa998c61041906c2082d63fdef6cc33a",
                "name": "CBC",
                "url": "https://www.cbc.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "94b51bed6656ae5d79a4b27f5c412228",
            "title": "Une étude identifie le PUF60 comme une vulnérabilité critique dans le cancer du sein triple négatif",
            "description": "Des chercheurs de l’Université de Californie à San Diego ont identifié une cible thérapeutique jusqu’alors méconnue pour le cancer du sein triple négatif (CSTN), le sous-type de cancer du sein le plus agressif. Leur nouvelle étude révèle qu'une protéine appelée PUF60 joue un rôle essentiel en aidant les cellules TNBC à se développer et à […]",
            "content": "Des chercheurs de l’Université de Californie à San Diego ont identifié une cible thérapeutique jusqu’alors méconnue pour le cancer du sein triple négatif (CSTN), le sous-type de cancer du sein le plus agressif. Leur nouvelle étude révèle qu'une proté... [2677 chars]",
            "url": "https://ma-clinique.fr/une-etude-identifie-le-puf60-comme-une-vulnerabilite-critique-dans-le-cancer-du-sein-triple-negatif",
            "image": "https://ma-clinique.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/La-structure-atomique-neuve-indique-comment-la-proteine-de-transporteur.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T02:41:45Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "5be145cce4c6fc3fd58092061b7679cf",
                "name": "ma-clinique.fr",
                "url": "https://ma-clinique.fr"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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