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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": 211218,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "946201dcf8aafca20110ea2d9c508a20",
            "title": "Now is the Time: Actively preventing foot and mouth disease",
            "description": "Canada has been free of foot and mouth disease since 1952, but global outbreaks make prevention critical. Learn how Canadian beef producers can protect herds and maintain our disease-free status.",
            "content": "As Canadian beef producers, we take pride in our disease-free status and the global reputation of our livestock industry. Canada has been free of foot and mouth disease (FMD) since 1952, an achievement that has allowed us to maintain valuable export ... [4746 chars]",
            "url": "https://abpdaily.com/health-production/now-is-the-time-actively-preventing-foot-and-mouth-disease/",
            "image": "https://abpdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SVND1892-scaled-e1765821662837.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-20T18:12:44Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "90cac72384b6243463c88519f52eedf8",
                "name": "abpdaily.com",
                "url": "https://abpdaily.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e95bb5c623ea1ae8d558b5d6de82a43f",
            "title": "New provincial health report maps path to better health and reduced inequities",
            "description": "The Office of the Chief Provincial Public Health Officer has released the 2025 Health Status of Manitobans Report, A Healthier Manitoba for All, prepared by Dr. Brent Roussin.",
            "content": "The Office of the Chief Provincial Public Health Officer has released the 2025 Health Status of Manitobans Report, A Healthier Manitoba for All, prepared by Dr. Brent Roussin.\nThe report is complementary to the 2024 Regional Health Authorities (RHA) ... [3106 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mysteinbach.ca/news/16291/new-provincial-health-report-maps-path-to-better-health-and-reduced-inequities/",
            "image": "https://www.mysteinbach.ca/news/wp-content/uploads/122025-01.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-20T16:50:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8f96044b1d4fe9cff86747db16d2f65e",
                "name": "mySteinbach.ca",
                "url": "https://www.mysteinbach.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8e01b4c418829e47e6a79712b72e1fdb",
            "title": "Is the 'super flu' as bad as it sounds? What to know about subclade K",
            "description": "Flu activity across Canada is increasing quickly, driven by a novel, mutated strain of H3N2 influenza A.",
            "content": "Matthew Miller recently had the “very unpleasant experience” of getting infected with influenza A. “Oddly enough, as someone who has spent their whole life studying flu, this was the first time that I know for sure it was a flu infection by virtue of... [6848 chars]",
            "url": "https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/is-the-superflu-as-bad-as-it-sounds-heres-what-to-know-about-the-new-mutated-variant-surging-in-canada",
            "image": "https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/1230-po-flu-tips.po_300428248.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-20T16:08:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b21848176ea49868330160a249ef8b6e",
                "name": "National Post",
                "url": "https://nationalpost.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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