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. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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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);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

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

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($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": 159678,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "3f394087508f2de5e7568c34be0f4cbb",
            "title": "De novo design of cysteine proteases",
            "description": "Despite advances in de novo enzyme design, success has been largely limited to low-energy-barrier model reactions. Amide bonds such as those linking amino acids along the peptide backbone are stable for hundreds of years in neutral aqueous solution because of the high energy barrier to hydrolysis1. Here we describe the de novo design of enzymes that use an activated cysteine nucleophile to hydrolyse the polypeptide backbone in a sequence-dependent manner, with a success rate of 13/69 = 19% and rate enhancements over the background reaction (kcat/kuncat) of up to 3 × 107. The designed proteases have folds that are very different from proteases in nature (TM score < 0.50), and six crystal structures are very close to the design models (Cα root mean squared deviation of <1.2 Å), highlighting the capacity for generalization and the accuracy of the design methodology. Experimental and computational analyses suggest that the remaining gap in activity to the most active native cysteine proteases arises from imperfections in active-site preorganization and substrate positioning. The designed proteases efficiently cleave their targets in mammalian cells, opening the door to a wide range of synthetic biology applications. De novo-designed enzymes use an activated cysteine nucleophile to hydrolyse polypeptide backbones in a sequence-dependent manner.",
            "content": "a, SDS–PAGE analysis of 69 designs following IMAC purification. Each sample was run in both unboiled and boiled conditions. Dotted lines indicate the regions corresponding to each backbone group. Positive control (TEV WT) is highlighted in blue, nega... [6889 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11143-w?error=cookies_not_supported&code=b91cf36b-808d-413b-9750-668159063bf0",
            "image": "https://media.springernature.com/m685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41586-026-11143-w/MediaObjects/41586_2026_11143_Fig1_HTML.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7abf0df285fbe93cdccffcc7c4088737",
                "name": "Nature",
                "url": "https://www.nature.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6a4618628a4dfea3f8a16365db34a730",
            "title": "George W Brown obituary",
            "description": "Acclaimed medical sociologist who established the importance of social and environmental factors in mental illness",
            "content": "In 1956 a letter arrived for George Brown. The Social Psychiatry Research Unit in Camberwell, south London, needed an anthropology graduate and Brown had been recommended by a former tutor. Since graduating two years before, he had had only numbing j... [6642 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/14/george-w-brown-obituary",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8ae152aba1286b880bdbc4fd7b633ed20cdd639a/96_0_2141_1712/master/2141.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=be5bd4a873a20ded6d747b84b5033cf7",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T16:06:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8028e5790c7c0f69695a988bf5267773",
            "title": "Romeo Beckham's girlfriend Kim Turnbull rushed for rabies jab after being attacked by dog",
            "description": "Kim Turnbull, Romeo Beckham's girlfriend, had to go to the hospital to get a rabies shot after a dog attacked her whilst she was on the beach, sharing the story on social media",
            "content": "Kim Turnbull, Romeo Beckham's girlfriend, had to go to the hospital to get a rabies shot after a dog attacked her whilst she was on the beach, sharing the story on social media\nRomeo Beckham's girlfriend Kim Turnbull had to receive a Rabies jab after... [3029 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/romeo-beckham-kim-turnbull-rabies-37771994",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/article37772044.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_Burberry-show-Arrivals-Spring-Summer-2027-London-Fashion-Week-UK-21-Sep-2026.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T15:19:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6cae1c46bb8b237dc470e08f1d7ce41a",
                "name": "Daily Mirror",
                "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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