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United Kingdom Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from United Kingdom with our JSON API.

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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": 130510,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "4a2e7527d8ebd427868900527cc74433",
            "title": "This 200,000-Year-Old Antibacterial Treatment Used by Neanderthals May Hold the Key to Modern Health Crises",
            "description": "Ancient Neanderthal methods might offer solutions to combat modern infections and superbugs.",
            "content": "Neanderthals may have been centuries ahead of modern medicine. By utilizing birch tar, a sticky substance used for everything from tool-making to wound care, these ancient relatives of humans were unknowingly practicing a form of antibacterial treatm... [3618 chars]",
            "url": "https://indiandefencereview.com/200000-year-old-antibacterial-neanderthals/",
            "image": "https://indiandefencereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/this-200000-year-old-antibacterial-treatment-used-by-neanderthals-may-hold-the-key-to-modern-health-crises-scaled.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T22:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "61a45608aab04b1a644e763fac18ed49",
                "name": "Indian Defence Review",
                "url": "https://indiandefencereview.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4050c1ecdb440708e23490b2a59f8661",
            "title": "Thousands of dementia patients to be fast-tracked onto clinical trials for potential new drugs in major win for Daily Mail campaign",
            "description": "Experts say the £20million scheme will widen participation in cutting-edge trials and accelerate the search for new treatments for the disease.",
            "content": "Thousands of dementia patients will be fast-tracked onto clinical trials for new drugs in a major win for the Daily Mail’s Defeating Dementia campaign.\nExperts say the £20million scheme will widen participation in cutting-edge trials and accelerate t... [4427 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15712189/Thousands-dementia-patients-fast-tracked-clinical-trials-potential-new-drugs-major-win-Daily-Mail-campaign.html",
            "image": "https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2026/04/07/18/105840681-0-image-a-9_1775582400944.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T18:08:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4aca9b1f6287a5f7a6dea911063bdb49",
                "name": "Daily Mail",
                "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f03f030c8212c043d6d6d98ceed6a52d",
            "title": "Sheppey mum whose son died from meningitis aged 21 urges government to offer MenB vaccine to everyone",
            "description": "A mum whose son died after contracting meningitis has urged people to look out for the symptoms and wants the government to agree to routine jabs.",
            "content": "The mum of a young man who died from meningitis is calling for a vaccine to be made available to all after a recent outbreak saw two more young people die.\nSue Gray’s son, Matthew Fox, was aged just 21 when he contracted the disease in April, 2023, a... [3503 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/i-don-t-want-more-deaths-mum-of-son-who-died-from-meningi-338721/",
            "image": "https://www.kentonline.co.uk/_media/img/GIQM2VB5SLEKSX1JTTNX.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T13:34:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "86f34d88cdf9615a9af32303a7e5dc34",
                "name": "Kent Online",
                "url": "https://www.kentonline.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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