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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": 118096,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "540500f65c166c340b66d7c7a302eefa",
            "title": "It's a Sin writer Russell T Davies warns 'HIV battle not over'",
            "description": "Russell T Davies says misinformation about the virus made him \"despair\".",
            "content": "It's a Sin writer Russell T Davies has warned \"the fight is not over\" when it comes to eradicating HIV.\nHe said misinformation about the virus made him \"despair\" and warned that we must not \"blunder into the future without looking back at the past\".\n... [4589 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxprpl9geyo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/3bbf/live/8c1bf740-cc48-11f0-a666-77ae802e0cf4.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-29T21:50:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5f62bb4355cc17d3b37985f53ffb475f",
            "title": "Dementia now feared more than cancer",
            "description": "Campaigners urge ministers to be ‘more ambitious’ in tackling Britain’s biggest killer",
            "content": "Dementia has overtaken cancer as the UK’s most feared illness, research shows.\nAlmost a third of adults (31 per cent) now say it is the disease they fear the most.\nFor family carers, this has risen from 27 per cent in 12 months. At the same time, the... [4007 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/29/dementia-now-feared-more-than-cancer/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2025/11/29/TELEMMGLPICT000450970748_17644399858702_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqNJjoeBT78QIaYdkJdEY4CnGTJFJS74MYhNY6w3GNbO8.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-29T18:47:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "2759ff1d8b3cf577e2966e17ca8acf81",
            "title": "Running 52 marathons 'gives me purpose' after mental health crisis",
            "description": "Tommy Greenhouse, 22, who has just completed his 47th run, said the challenge was giving him purpose.",
            "content": "A graduate who struggled with his mental health throughout his studies returned to his university campus to run his 47th marathon out of a planned 52 this year.\nTommy Greenhouse, 22, said the challenge – and his fundraising for 52 charities – had giv... [1118 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yqv122rrzo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/d902/live/1779c200-cd3d-11f0-b610-cf72bc71edf9.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-11-29T17:59:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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