United Kingdom Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from the United Kingdom with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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Request and live response

This request returns the current top health headlines from the United Kingdom. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=gb&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=gb" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "health", "country": "gb", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "health",
    country: "gb",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "health",
    "country"  => "gb",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=gb&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 159056,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f1b372e147007e589885cf32c0b28d71",
            "title": "'Multi-cancer' blood tests coming to some GP surgeries",
            "description": "The aim is to detect hard-to-diagnose abdominal cancers, including liver, ovarian and pancreatic cancer, much sooner.",
            "content": "New blood tests designed to check for multiple cancers in one go will be offered to NHS patients in some 200 GP surgeries in England as part of a trial.\nThe aim is to detect hard-to-diagnose abdominal cancers, including liver, ovarian and pancreatic ... [2214 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm9qz93ew22no",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/e57b/live/5bce4a50-d78e-11f1-9440-953b82c8f55a.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:04:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4389a7617ecbb8364a8969b166b7bd21",
            "title": "South West pain cafes at risk without new funding, warns founder",
            "description": "The support network for chronic pain sufferers based in Devon is described as \"vital\" for users.",
            "content": "A support network helping people live with chronic pain in Cornwall and Devon could be forced to close unless funding is secured by April, its founder has said.\nChronic pain coach Julie Widdecombe set up the pain cafes in 2023 in Plymouth, Devon, to ... [2068 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmvgxw6qr03vo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/90fa/live/da6eb040-d787-11f1-9440-953b82c8f55a.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T13:04:38Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4b4a87a322f538bd32019f65848470c7",
            "title": "Welsh man in coma in Greece after falling ill with ear infection",
            "description": "His family says his insurance won't cover the costs",
            "content": "His family says his insurance won't cover the costs\nA grandfather from Wales is fighting for his life in a Greek hospital after an ear infection reportedly caused him to fall into a coma. Bruce Brown, originally from Bangor, became critically ill whi... [1382 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/wales-man-coma-greece-after-34853915",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/article34853921.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/2_Jam_Press_JMP930424.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T08:55:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fcad4c1746f88086ef59fadd050f7798",
                "name": "Wales Online",
                "url": "https://www.walesonline.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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United Kingdom Health News API

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