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United Kingdom Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=gb&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 119638,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "5342864919b2510567a54e866f720b2d",
            "title": "infectious measles spreading in three areas of Greater Manchester",
            "description": "The latest statistics have been released",
            "content": "Cases of highly-infectious measles spreading in three areas of Greater Manchester\nThe latest statistics have been released\nCases of the viral infection measles are spreading in Greater Manchester, new official figures reveal. More cases have been con... [3638 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cases-of-highly-infectious-measles-32936734",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/article31796608.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/4_JS338162172.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T20:13:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d747ad2c8a358a8ac802059a4e88a6a6",
                "name": "Manchester Evening News",
                "url": "https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "83f820c863a0e0696cf80c3603e1be44",
            "title": "29 Doctors Share Shocking Causes Of Death",
            "description": "\"Numerous doctors had overlooked it.\"",
            "content": "Trending\n\"He Died 2 Days Later\": Medical Workers Are Sharing The Shocking Patient Death Diagnoses That Literally Made Their Jaws Drop\n\"Numerous doctors had overlooked it.\"\nI'm not the biggest fan of medical drama TV shows for one reason and one reaso... [14867 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.buzzfeed.com/abbyzinman/doctors-reveal-shocking-causes-of-death",
            "image": "https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2025-11/10/16/thumb/TCtAY3zFB.png?crop=1324:694;0,61%26downsize=1250:*",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T19:31:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b697b2aa95a614f8ec47e331bf4afa20",
                "name": "BuzzFeed",
                "url": "https://www.buzzfeed.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "56805c58670a77ce3f49ef6f1a16d1a5",
            "title": "Do you risk stomach bleeds from your use of ibuprofen or aspirin?",
            "description": "An audit has found that there are 60,000 hospital admissions a year for the issue, which can be fatal. Here’s what you need to know",
            "content": "Just under half of the 5,141 patients analysed in the audit were on some form of medicine that exacerbated bleeding, such as low-dose aspirin, clopidogrel and the anticoagulants warfarin and apixaban. And 1 in 14 was taking a non-steroidal anti-infla... [3741 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/stomach-bleeds-ibuprofen-aspirin-lk0nlplfm",
            "image": "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fmethode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2Fe9087243-6b3c-4f9f-9cfb-40a82ccb4a10.png?crop=1500%2C844%2C0%2C26&resize=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-24T17:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9e0e1039092ec85a0b069e08b66bb337",
                "name": "The Times",
                "url": "https://www.thetimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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