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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": 202796,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "7ca13bcec6b920c066216f9152ef8549",
            "title": "Virtual nature walks and “magic” hands: a new era in pain management",
            "description": "A clinical trial led by UdeM’s David Ogez is assessing the effectiveness of combining VR and hypnosis to alleviate chronic arthritic pain in seniors.",
            "content": "What if arthritis sufferers could take an immersive walk through a forest filled with soothing birdsong and then, with some help from hypnosis, come to experience their pain as separate from their body — and expel it?\nThat's the goal of research led ... [4208 chars]",
            "url": "https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2025/11/26/virtual-nature-walks-and-magic-hands-a-new-era-in-pain-management",
            "image": "https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/public/nouvelles/_processed_/4/4/csm_20251124_rv-douleur-couverture_51ae9dfba6.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-26T22:16:26Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "777cb3f92d798a8666b43224ef6b9b5d",
                "name": "Université de Montréal",
                "url": "https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d45f9443bb7c9655a63de80ecefe970d",
            "title": "DARC Hosts “Meet Us Where We’re At” screening for Day With(out) Art starting Dec. 1",
            "description": "Featuring six commissioned videos documenting the experiences of drug users and harm reduction within the HIV/AIDS crisis, this interview with DARC’s Director, Emily Ramsay, discusses how the collaborative event connects local Ottawa struggles to a worldwide movement of art and ongoing resistance.",
            "content": "Digital Arts Resource Centre (DARC), in partnership with Qu’ART and Visual AIDS, is presenting “Meet Us Where We’re At,” an international film screening marking Day With(out) Art.\nFeaturing six commissioned videos documenting the experiences of drug ... [6961 chars]",
            "url": "https://apt613.ca/darc-hosts-meet-us-where-were-at-screening-for-day-without-art-starting-dec-1/",
            "image": "https://apt613.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/12_1-DWA-Eventbrite.png",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-26T21:47:22Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2972dca07ee98e50a45036bedd8eeb90",
                "name": "Apartment613",
                "url": "https://apt613.ca"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5a01c630469d06eca7089eace8ca9c95",
            "title": "Chanter pour que le brouillard se dissipe",
            "description": "Le brouillard mental, vous connaissez ?",
            "content": "Le brouillard mental, vous connaissez ?\nOn cherche ses mots, on a des trous de mémoire, on navigue de petite confusion en grande fatigue… Certains parlent de « brain fog », d’autres de « brouillard cérébral ». Pour la plupart, c’est généralement pass... [5622 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca/societe/chroniques/2025-11-26/opera-et-chimiotherapie/chanter-pour-que-le-brouillard-se-dissipe.php",
            "image": "https://mobile-img.lpcdn.ca/v2/924x/r3996/34c55be0/9e3ab2ffe71b3b17bb933b0fa8594a17.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-26T21:30:00Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "9929f9b2d4820f4ed54220376fab7d4c",
                "name": "La Presse",
                "url": "https://www.lapresse.ca"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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