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Singapore Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Singapore 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 Singapore.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=sg&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 48654,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "3e80ba97bdbb890c754713cea4072e43",
            "title": "More younger adults in Singapore developing glaucoma, likely because of untreated myopia",
            "description": "Untreated myopia is causing a rise in glaucoma among younger adults in Singapore, highlighting the need for early detection and intervention in children. Read more at straitstimes.com.",
            "content": "SINGAPORE – More people in Singapore are developing eye conditions such as glaucoma at a younger age, in their 40s and 50s.\nThis is likely due to\nuntreated myopia in these earlier generations of Singaporeans\n, who did not have many treatment options ... [7304 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/more-younger-adults-develop-glaucoma-because-of-untreated-myopia",
            "image": "https://cassette.sphdigital.com.sg/image/straitstimes/74ebb11e11f063af5bb96384bb153274abceaa98201caac5e6b65ba07ba7ef06",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T21:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "739b615c65becd670ee152cab7f8c439",
                "name": "The Straits Times",
                "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5305bad7cfc2ff385da8f396b775890d",
            "title": "Engineered immune cells could advance a cure for type 1 diabetes",
            "description": "Researchers engineered immune cells that protect insulin-producing cell transplants, bringing scientists closer to a cure for type 1 diabetes.",
            "content": "For decades, scientists have tried to replace the insulin-producing cells destroyed in type 1 diabetes. But even when new cells are transplanted, the immune system often attacks them again.\nA new strategy may help solve that problem. Researchers have... [6231 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.earth.com/news/engineered-immune-cells-could-advance-a-cure-for-type-1-diabetes/",
            "image": "https://cff2.earth.com/uploads/2026/03/06035433/Engineered-immune-cells-could-advance-a-cure-for-type-1-diabetes.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T19:41:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fca72a05020e12df547eedb79c870663",
                "name": "Earth.com",
                "url": "https://www.earth.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3753489b53bd64ad13a1a2ad096c641a",
            "title": "How to reverse early dementia symptoms - by a neuroscientist",
            "description": "One of America’s leading brain scientists thinks too many people are being diagnosed too early with Alzheimer’s. Dr Majid Fotuhi talks to Rosamund Dean",
            "content": "At the time the scientific conversation was dominated by “plaques and tangles” — protein deposits in the brain that cause Alzheimer’s and, to a lesser extent, other forms of dementia. But working with patients with mild cognitive impairment, which he... [6412 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/brain-decline-alzheimers-reversal-advice-wpfmvcxg6",
            "image": "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2F6b9fdc25-287a-4fc0-bcaf-627a67e6e629.jpg?crop=4864%2C2736%2C0%2C0&resize=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-07T18:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9e0e1039092ec85a0b069e08b66bb337",
                "name": "The Times",
                "url": "https://www.thetimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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