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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": 122796,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "09bca5c941b0f0aaaf3c4cc9885324dd",
            "title": "Tired all the time? Your gut could be to blame",
            "description": "Doctors believe a sensitive or unhealthy microbiome can lead to issues with iron absorption, causing crippling fatigue and hair loss",
            "content": "Do you feel tired all the time? Are you lacking energy and losing your hair despite taking iron supplements religiously? You may be among the estimated one in three people who cannot absorb iron orally – and your gut microbiome could be to blame.\nDr ... [9955 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/diet/gut-health/gut-problems-stopping-absorbing-iron-how-to-fix/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/health-fitness/2026/02/04/TELEMMGLPICT000461022470_17702219002640_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vEN7c6bHu2jJnT8.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-05T07:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "21172e6706ca0c3b92dba90dff6f68c4",
            "title": "Bowel cancer home‑testing kit 'saved my life', says Nottingham man",
            "description": "John Crouchley lost about 5st (32kg) after experiencing digestive problems, before his diagnosis.",
            "content": "A man from Nottingham says a home‑testing kit that detected his bowel cancer early is the reason he is alive today.\nJohn Crouchley, from Wollaton, was advised to take a Faecal Immunochemical Test , external(FIT) after experiencing digestive problems ... [2512 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr7jgrdn95no",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/3652/live/d4fbada0-01dd-11f1-9900-f997a1d0e001.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-05T06:58:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "98f167a9accf746d905d0519e78361aa",
            "title": "'I had no symptoms but random test found lung cancer'",
            "description": "A Liverpool couple say they have both been saved by a proactive lung screening programme.",
            "content": "A man with no troubling symptoms was only found to have lung cancer after he was offered a test under a specialist NHS screening programme.\nGordon Darnell, now 72, said he was diagnosed on Christmas Eve in 2020, with his wife Muriel sitting at his si... [1222 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2lxk7w0d2o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/d0c6/live/403771b0-01e5-11f1-88cc-958b71e0ce18.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-05T06:20:42Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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