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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": 123956,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d860ea5e267b9589bdaeb6fb6441330d",
            "title": "Somerset boy's life saved by blood transfusion in the womb",
            "description": "Laura Fricker has spoken about her son, who had foetal anaemia and required a rare intrauterine procedure.",
            "content": "A mother whose unborn baby needed blood transfusions while still in the womb said she had no idea such a procedure was possible.\nLaura Fricker, from Weston-super-Mare in North Somerset, was pregnant with her son Sebastian, now 8, when doctors discove... [1593 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crleyglwnx1o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/6ff9/live/09e45a20-0360-11f1-bab5-81d0d0b0abce.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-07T07:14:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b7c23761d2ed4152bafb3ae9aac3522d",
            "title": "I noticed a strange rash - within hours I was fighting for my life",
            "description": "'One day I was healthy, the next I was fighting for my life because of a virus I’d never heard of'",
            "content": "'One day I was healthy, the next I was fighting for my life because of a virus I’d never heard of'\nWhen he had a cardiac arrest on a work trip newly-married expectant dad Rhys Edwards, 35, didn't think he'd make it home.\nHaving been rushed to hospita... [4394 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/noticed-strange-rash--within-33364810",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/article33364910.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/1_AWR_MAI_Rhys-Edwards_040226jpg1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-07T03:14:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fcad4c1746f88086ef59fadd050f7798",
                "name": "Wales Online",
                "url": "https://www.walesonline.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1a43d6463f40b71d5094d05fb72d323b",
            "title": "I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body",
            "description": "BBC health correspondent James Gallagher gets his blood analysed to understand how air pollution is killing us.",
            "content": "I feel contaminated.\nI'm in a laboratory staring at my blood under a microscope. Rather than pristine red blood cells, some of them have been tainted with black markings. I'm now one of the first people in the world to see air pollution building up i... [5815 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74w48d8epgo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/1061/live/96ec4df0-034d-11f1-b5e2-dd58fc65f0f6.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-07T00:11:32Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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