United Kingdom Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from United Kingdom with our JSON API.

Get API key for the United Kingdom Health News API

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 United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 127246,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a0a896c2821dab922829bee059ddbb2a",
            "title": "Woman's harrowing last four words as she dies of lung problems after vaping habit",
            "description": "Escarlen De los Santos, 30, used her last moments to warn her followers to stay off vapes and hookahs, because her habit led to her diagnosis of respiratory failure",
            "content": "Escarlen De los Santos, 30, used her last moments to warn her followers to stay off vapes and hookahs, because her habit led to her diagnosis of respiratory failure\nA young woman used her final moments to warn her followers to ditch vapes — because t... [2784 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vaping-dangers-lung-failure-warning-37068227",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/article37068231.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/2_Woman-30-dies-of-respiratory-failure-after-warning-others-about-vaping-from-death-bed.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-24T23:44:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6cae1c46bb8b237dc470e08f1d7ce41a",
                "name": "The Mirror",
                "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "19b6e9ee2dfc796ffbce2bb79d6007a7",
            "title": "'Our son died from meningitis before vaccine that could have saved his life was available'",
            "description": "Maureen spoke to the consultant who had treated David that day and he said the only thing that could have saved David's life would have been a vaccination",
            "content": "As she kissed her son after he uttered the words 'sore thumb mummy', Maureen Ellson had no idea this would be the last thing he ever said to her.\nDavid was just two when he suddenly became unwell overnight and his loving parents rushed him to hospita... [7240 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/our-son-died-meningitis-before-33830257",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.belfastlive.co.uk/article33834034.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_David1PNG.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-24T19:40:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "78881a9cd935152c13a00724e7ab8166",
                "name": "Belfast Live",
                "url": "https://www.belfastlive.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c55e524fcd96d057d61254cfb97c790a",
            "title": "'My son boarded a flight home with a headache",
            "description": "Alexander 'Zander' Philogenes, 21, died in an Austrian hospital on April 11 from meningococcal disease, six days after he embarked on a holiday to Portugal with friends",
            "content": "'My son boarded a flight home with a headache - but four hours later he was dead'\nAlexander 'Zander' Philogenes, 21, died in an Austrian hospital on April 11 from meningococcal disease, six days after he embarked on a holiday to Portugal with friends... [2817 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/student-dead-flight-home-headache-37066742",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/article37066762.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_he-as-he-boarded-a-flight-three-hours-later-he-was-dead_1880JPG.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-24T15:55:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6cae1c46bb8b237dc470e08f1d7ce41a",
                "name": "The Mirror",
                "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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