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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": 126082,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "84e95f976b75009d72fd3de46fa1d100",
            "title": "My daughter has childhood dementia and may not live past 16",
            "description": "Diagnosed just before her fourth birthday, Sophia, now 15, can no longer speak and cannot walk unaided.",
            "content": "Just before her fourth birthday Sophia Scott's parents were told she had a condition that causes childhood dementia.\nThey walked away with a single sheet of paper and were advised to make the most of the time they had left with her.\nNow 15, Sophia ca... [4966 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yj634ml71o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/8bbc/live/3e58e000-2d0e-11f1-9005-cf873f959530.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T21:51:22Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "328d8e9f9eccc97b4f4494e7573b89b9",
            "title": "East Grinstead man died in hospital after medicine not given",
            "description": "Tom Parsons, 32, did not receive medication that could have saved his life and died in East Surrey Hospital.",
            "content": "A patient who died from complications with blood clots was not given a vital anti-clotting medication that could have saved his life, an inquest has heard.\nTom Parsons, 32, died in East Surrey Hospital on 8 July 2024 due to complications with deep ve... [2236 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g53qnzpvlo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/1b1d/live/487eef70-2d09-11f1-903b-c7d082edabea.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T15:54:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4ab13368c4c44798823aac03ad11ea56",
            "title": "I was haunted by my first sexual encounter for 15 YEARS… even Viagra didn't help until simple habit cured me",
            "description": "ERECTILE dysfunction may conjure up images of ageing bodies and blue pills.\nBut it had plagued Cathal Fahy since his first ever sexual...",
            "content": "ERECTILE dysfunction may conjure up images of ageing bodies and blue pills.\nBut it had plagued Cathal Fahy since his first ever sexual encounter, when he was just a young teen. “It scarred me,” he tells Sun Health. “For the next ten or so years, I st... [6342 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/38652590/erectile-dysfunction-haunted-sexual-encounter-viagra/",
            "image": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/newspress-collage-7bgjbahmv-1774868247497.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&1774871869&w=1920&h=1080&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T14:42:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8312b3960d99553247ab475ee7eeed9a",
                "name": "The Sun",
                "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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