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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": 218818,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f2e7c01eb87730ba748dbcda9791d37e",
            "title": "Alzheimer : pourquoi un risque génétique élevé rime souvent avec plus de vie sociale que prévu ?",
            "description": "Découvrez pourquoi un risque génétique accru d'Alzheimer pourrait être lié à une vie sociale plus active.",
            "content": "Rédigé le 09/02/2026\nPrès d’un demi-million de parcours de vie scrutés\nL’équipe, rattachée à l’École de santé publique de Boston, a composé un score de risque génétique personnalisé pour chaque personne. Ce score a été mis en relation avec plusieurs ... [1190 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.passeportsante.net/magazine/sante?doc=alzheimer-risque-genetique-eleve-rime-vie-sociale-prevu",
            "image": "https://img.passeportsante.net/1200x675/2026-02-09/isole-alzheimer.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-09T17:40:12Z",
            "lang": "fr",
            "source": {
                "id": "330e5217933293cef6619df72d40eaee",
                "name": "PasseportSanté",
                "url": "https://www.passeportsante.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d54b3b5cd60575d2eb9c04ad88ab339e",
            "title": "Dr. Oz Urges Americans to ‘Take the Vaccine, Please’ in Response to Recent Measles Outbreaks",
            "description": "CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz responded to an ongoing surge in measles cases, urging Americans to \"take the vaccine, please.\"",
            "content": "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz responded to a recent surge in measles cases throughout America, urging Americans in a CNN interview to “take the vaccine, please.”\nOz’s comments come just days after the South Ca... [2591 chars]",
            "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com/dr-oz-urges-americans-vaccine-173210011.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/os/en/thewrap.com/37de5f9ff31f89f7163c226131c37353",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-09T17:32:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a2b63f17a2f88eb6115cf6b743dcd1e5",
                "name": "Yahoo News Canada",
                "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8653a336d51672418c9a5dd743664973",
            "title": "When Advocacy Meets Science in the Care of People Living with gMG",
            "description": "For many people living with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG), everyday tasks can take unexpected effort.",
            "content": "Infections: Serious, including life-threatening or fatal, bacterial, fungal, and new or reactivated viral infections have been observed during and following completion of treatment with B-cell depleting therapies, including UPLIZNA. The most common i... [3580 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.amgen.com/stories/2026/02/when-advocacy-meets-science-in-the-care-of-people-living-with-gmg",
            "image": "http://www.amgen.com/-/media/Themes/CorporateAffairs/amgen-com/amgen-com/Images/stories/2026/02-09-When-Advocacy-Meets-Science-in-the-Care-of-People-Living-with-gMG/1200-x-630.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-09T17:02:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9f65017288a7dca13f222c00e9673429",
                "name": "Amgen",
                "url": "https://www.amgen.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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