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": 142610,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "3e89589692918461e4a85246a873fd94",
            "title": "Dan's eczema was so severe he TORE his skin off and spiralled into psychosis",
            "description": "A DAD with eczema so severe he couldn’t hug his daughter and had an episode of psychosis that left him tearing his own skin off, has finally...",
            "content": "A DAD with eczema so severe he couldn’t hug his daughter and had an episode of psychosis that left him tearing his own skin off, has finally found some relief in ketchup cream.\nDan Hills, 33, from Worthing, has had the common skin condition since he ... [6692 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/38873872/eczema-agony-psychosis-daughter-couldnt-hug-me/",
            "image": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/eczema-sc-offplat.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&1777045639&w=1920&h=1080&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-30T06:41:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8312b3960d99553247ab475ee7eeed9a",
                "name": "The Sun",
                "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5ad6477570bfec7fff47a75ff5ba6fd9",
            "title": "'I didn't get thrombectomy because I had a stroke at the weekend'",
            "description": "A Preston man says he did not get a \"life-altering\" stroke treatment because of what day it was.",
            "content": "When Phil Woodford had a stroke in 2016 it was a Sunday.\nHe said the simple fact it was the weekend, and not a weekday at Royal Preston Hospital (RPH), meant he missed out on a \"life-altering treatment\".\nAt the time RPH did not offer 24/7 thrombectom... [1848 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy42ljjd9xeo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/c878/live/a5dd2a30-43e6-11f1-9113-1988573e8ff7.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-30T05:17:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a458a47380dd4d87551e07c57ee4f3c6",
            "title": "Could a simple house design cut malaria rates by almost half?",
            "description": "Children living in redesigned rural homes in Tanzania were found to have fewer bouts of sickness than those in traditional huts",
            "content": "Architecture may hold the secret to slashing malaria rates in children by nearly half, researchers have found.\nIn a study published in the journal Nature, researchers redesigned rural homes in Tanzania to try and block the transmission routes of thre... [5520 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/could-a-simple-house-design-cut-malaria-rates-by-almost-hal/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/global-health/2026/04/29/TELEMMGLPICT000481632537_17774856600870_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqjs9rvLgZZ90j3KNOlebaf3wSCF1R0VweJ7DS2UnVMSQ.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-30T05:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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