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": 292922,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d0fa20569777b374563ad975c9e455f7",
            "title": "Possible Measles Exposure Travelling out of Winnipeg",
            "description": "Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) is informing the public that a person with contagious measles travelled out of Winnipeg on March 28, 2026...",
            "content": "Northwestern Health Unit - Special to The Bulletin\nNorthwestern Health Unit (NWHU) is informing the public that a person with contagious measles travelled out of Winnipeg on March 28, 2026, through Toronto, and further on to Orlando Florida on March ... [2110 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.siouxbulletin.com/possible-measles-exposure-travelling-out-of-winnipeg-260415",
            "image": "https://www.siouxbulletin.com/uploads/thumbnails/PossibleMeaslesExposureSUB1copy.jpg.42503cb2.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-21T16:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1045e630fedf5562ed12f01e0f950f23",
                "name": "Sioux Bulletin",
                "url": "https://www.siouxbulletin.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cda48b4becd674d08ab88aef8ca01405",
            "title": "Black Gunk Found in Man's Lungs Exposes an Even Darker Side of Wildfire Smoke",
            "description": "The strange injury was caused by hours of inhaling thick smoke, his doctors say.",
            "content": "A case report out this month starkly illustrates the damage forest fires can do to our lungs.\nDoctors in China treated a man who breathed in thick smoke from a forest fire. After the man’s respiratory function began to decline, doctors examined his a... [2037 chars]",
            "url": "https://gizmodo.com/black-gunk-found-in-mans-lungs-exposes-an-even-darker-side-of-wildfire-smoke-2000749012",
            "image": "https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/bronchial-casts-1200x675.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-21T15:40:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b86966b1ce9f29cc65fd4b3bf0671e5c",
                "name": "Gizmodo",
                "url": "https://gizmodo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f7dd820a1c149c72171f4a2a808cc396",
            "title": "Obésité, cancer, diabète : un pas en avant, deux en arrière",
            "description": "Un rapport de l'Organisation de coopération et de développement économique (OCDE), tire la sonnette d'alarme : l'obésité a “complètement annulé” les progrès réalisés contre le tabagisme et la pollution. Les maladies non transmissibles continuent de progresser dans le monde.",
            "content": "Un pas en avant, deux en arrière, c'est un peu le sentiment qui prédomine à la lecture du nouveau rapport de l'OCDE sur les maladies non transmissibles. D'un côté, les progrès de la médecine moderne et les campagnes de prévention ont permis des avanc... [3824 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.guadeloupe.franceantilles.fr/actualite/sante/obesite-cancer-diabete-un-pas-en-avant-deux-en-arriere-alerte-locde-1076499.php",
            "image": "https://medias.franceantilles.fr/api/v1/images/view/69e798099b62a241960f890d/width_1000/image.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-21T15:33:32Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "8998c0440b6be6c2a3a21802d70e48b2",
                "name": "guadeloupe.franceantilles.fr",
                "url": "https://www.guadeloupe.franceantilles.fr"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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