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": 299342,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "414eb82bbc5f33e7dec4aac204319250",
            "title": "Woman’s Scary Symptoms Were Dismissed by Her Doctors for Years. Then She Researched Her Genealogy, and Everything Made Sense",
            "description": "The woman experienced agonizing stomach pain and both auditory and visual hallucinations",
            "content": "NEED TO KNOW\nA Texas mom says years of severe stomach pain and hallucinations were dismissed by doctors until a genetic test revealed she had a rare disorder, acute intermittent porphyria (AIP)\nShe discovered the condition after reviewing her late gr... [3766 chars]",
            "url": "https://ca.style.yahoo.com/woman-scary-symptoms-were-dismissed-081500331.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/UR9_jtLpXAijt9613rFnnQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/people_218/bf75e9075151195a899b39b8fa186f83",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-03T08:15:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "05ab64591e6d8f5d7706c5475ab29da2",
                "name": "Yahoo Lifestyle Canada",
                "url": "https://ca.style.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "98cacb2f3fb497b0581a32b40dabc6f7",
            "title": "L'aspirine réduirait les risques de cancer, c'est la science qui le dit",
            "description": "L'aspirine permettrait de prévenir certains cancers et de limiter les récidives, selon plusieurs études. Face à cette piste prometteuse, la recherche…",
            "content": "La prochaine fois que vous avalerez une aspirine pour calmer un mal de tête, pensez-y: ce geste banal pourrait contribuer à freiner silencieusement le développement de certaines tumeurs. Nick James, un fabricant de meubles britannique, en est convain... [4318 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.slate.fr/sante/cancer-aspirine-prevention-medicament-recherche-pharmacologie",
            "image": "https://cdn.slate.fr/uploads/store/story_272699/original_272699.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-03T08:00:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "017f9749b179c806b725a4049a9c676d",
                "name": "Slate.fr",
                "url": "https://www.slate.fr"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1721d18e234b1d391d60b1407e0f0a36",
            "title": "Cancer : un nouvel espoir pour lutter contre le glioblastome, la tumeur cérébrale la plus fréquente et la plus agressive",
            "description": "La recherche a mis en évidence la présence du cytomégalovirus, CMVH, un virus fréquent chez l’humain, dans les cellules tumorales. Le CMVH ne serait pas à l’origine du...",
            "content": "Le glioblastome est la tumeur cérébrale la plus fréquente et aussi l’une des plus agressives chez l’adulte.\nC’est un gliome (c’est-à-dire une tumeur qui se développe dans le cerveau ou la moelle épinière) à croissance rapide. Il se développe à partir... [7512 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.midilibre.fr/2026/05/03/cancer-un-nouvel-espoir-pour-lutter-contre-le-glioblastome-la-tumeur-cerebrale-la-plus-frequente-et-la-plus-agressive-13350699.php",
            "image": "https://images.midilibre.fr/api/v1/images/view/69f3493b5645df08e50668a2/hd/image.jpg?v=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-03T07:21:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "abc3a6d91807e0131a7b23ead6f5162c",
                "name": "Midi Libre",
                "url": "https://www.midilibre.fr"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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