United States Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from the United States 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 States. 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=us&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=us" \
  --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": "us", "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: "us",
    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"  => "us",
    "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=us&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": 160676,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "92e13b7f64f849e532e62b4c64ab240e",
            "title": "Measles cases surge past 150 in Kentucky; big outbreak identified in one county",
            "description": "Just days after Kentucky's measles case count hit 100, dozens more have been reported.",
            "content": "LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. —\nJust days after Kentucky's measles case count hit 100, dozens more have been reported.\nAs of Wednesday, the number of cases reported in the Commonwealth is now 157 for 2026.\nMost of those come out of Laurel County, which had seve... [1720 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.wlky.com/article/measles-kentucky-count-157-lauren-county/74134107",
            "image": "https://kubrick.htvapps.com/htv-prod/images/ed1ae693-38ff-4f9f-b61e-53b263c5dfb5.jpg?crop=1.00xw%3A1.00xh%3B0%2C0&resize=1200%3A*",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T21:44:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7ffdc0911f17bab711799b0f80d3d467",
                "name": "WLKY",
                "url": "https://www.wlky.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "86d548e1532e0846837d0d6bd8df22e2",
            "title": "2 West Nile virus deaths reported in North Carolina: Officials",
            "description": "North Carolina health officials are warning that West Nile virus is spreading after two deaths were linked to the disease.",
            "content": "North Carolina health officials are warning that West Nile virus is spreading after two deaths were linked to the disease.\nThe two deaths were adults from central North Carolina, according to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services.\nCurre... [2031 chars]",
            "url": "https://abcnews.com/Health/2-west-nile-virus-deaths-reported-north-carolina/story?id=137253100",
            "image": "https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/6d78a1d6-6e35-420e-a895-9c28f92382d5/mosquito-2-gty-er-261014_1791995279835_hpMain_16x9.jpg?w=1600",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T19:38:08Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d35e5701ba890c345f47dc0dd5522375",
                "name": "ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos",
                "url": "https://abcnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "92127dbfd4fd8b10a0878be0db81b8e1",
            "title": "10 health conditions may be linked to Alzheimer's, years before diagnosis",
            "description": "Early-onset Alzheimer's disease may be signaled by depression, vertigo, headaches and stroke years before diagnosis, a new Finnish study suggests.",
            "content": "NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\nCertain medical conditions may signal early-onset Alzheimer’s disease several years before diagnosis, a new Finnish study suggests.\nResearchers found that depression, vertigo, headaches and other conditions... [3791 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/health/10-health-conditions-linked-alzheimers-years-before-diagnosis",
            "image": "https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2026/10/older-woman-holding-head.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T18:35:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a8408ad388422503ac33101396026891",
                "name": "Fox News",
                "url": "https://www.foxnews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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