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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": 227566,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a59de49156a0389128a7c9813e7a0272",
            "title": "Unvaccinated pupils could be excluded as measles hits London schools, parents told",
            "description": "Children identified as close contacts of people with the disease could be excluded for three weeks",
            "content": "Parents in north London have been told their children could be excluded from school if they are not fully vaccinated against measles amid an outbreak of the highly-contagious disease.\nUnvaccinated pupils identified as close contacts of people with me... [3939 chars]",
            "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com/unvaccinated-pupils-could-excluded-measles-112442596.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/XsNBfambtqOqIaFECYUusA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bbc_us_articles_995/91d57d3f13113053a93d4226ccf79d54",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T11:24:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a2b63f17a2f88eb6115cf6b743dcd1e5",
                "name": "Yahoo News Canada",
                "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "16f06628ca104d0f45de8000c1477b8e",
            "title": "Tabagisme en France : 68 000 décès évitables en 2023, une baisse encourageante mais un fardeau toujours trop important",
            "description": "Santé publique France publie aujourd’hui les nouvelles estimations de la mortalité attribuable au tabagisme en France en 2023.",
            "content": "Le tabac est responsable de plus de 68 000 décès prématurés, soit 11 % de la mortalité totale. Ces données, issues d’une méthodologie révisée et actualisée, confirment que le tabac demeure la première cause de mortalité évitable dans le pays, malgré ... [4769 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/presse/2026/tabagisme-en-france-68-000-deces-evitables-en-2023-une-baisse-encourageante-mais-un-fardeau-toujours-trop-important",
            "image": "https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/favicon.ico",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T11:02:53Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "d716062369a18f952d2008a8e80f0635",
                "name": "Santé publique France",
                "url": "https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "48fc6165d1f0d705890bd67b2b1eb134",
            "title": "Santé Sommeil, anti-âge, musculation… L’Inserm met en garde contre les dangers des peptides",
            "description": "Sur les réseaux sociaux, les peptides font l'objet d'un véritable engouement. Ils sont présentés comme la solution pour prendre du muscle, gommer ...",
            "content": "Les peptides sont de petites chaînes d’acides aminés qui constituent les protéines de notre organisme. Ils jouent principalement un rôle de messagers, transmettant des signaux aux cellules pour réguler diverses fonctions biologiques.\nSi notre corps p... [3885 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.leprogres.fr/magazine-sante/2026/02/16/sommeil-anti-age-musculation-l-inserm-met-en-garde-contre-les-dangers-des-peptides",
            "image": "https://cdn-s-www.leprogres.fr/images/B0553BE7-F1F8-44AC-929E-80E31C8EF7A1/FB1200/photo-1770912963.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T11:01:19Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "092175adf8b6fca5e0e0e96396e03ce6",
                "name": "Le Progrès",
                "url": "https://www.leprogres.fr"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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