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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": 126382,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "e5bb795c90e221a4ba7d41ad458667ef",
            "title": "'I thought I was going to die' - Woman calls for tighter weight-loss jabs checks",
            "description": "Emma Dyer says she collapsed on her bathroom floor and began vomiting blood after buying jabs online.",
            "content": "Emma Dyer remembers the moment she clicked \"buy now\" on a set of weight‑loss jabs she found online.\nShe had no medical consultation, no ID checks, and no questions about her history of anorexia and bulimia.\n\"It was just so easy - too easy,\" she says.... [4808 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9gd52r4gro",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/e3f5/live/a8c2a920-0ccb-11f1-8561-df3cc28357d5.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-23T00:05:01Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "25a4da2ce3c650cb5f20210157c5abee",
            "title": "Prostate cancer treatment used by Lord Cameron denied to NHS patients",
            "description": "Men have to fight to be offered less invasive focal therapy, warns pioneer of technique",
            "content": "Men with prostate cancer are being denied NHS access to a treatment used by Lord Cameron, a senior doctor has revealed.\nProf Hashim Ahmed, the chairman of urology at Imperial College London, said focal therapy was not widely available on the NHS desp... [2409 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/22/prostate-cancer-treatment-lord-cameron-denied-nhs-patients/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2026/02/22/TELEMMGLPICT000465811569_17717883291844_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-22T21:21:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4e2ad90999e6815f36a5097a160e65cc",
            "title": "Meditating twice a day ‘can reduce spread of cancer’",
            "description": "Patients told to cut stress to prevent high cortisol levels, which could be linked to tumour growth",
            "content": "Patients with cancer who meditate each morning and evening could reduce the chance of it spreading, scientists say.\nTwice-daily attempts to reduce stress could help prevent cancer cells becoming more robust, harder to treat and more likely to spread,... [2271 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/22/meditating-twice-a-day-can-reduce-spread-of-cancer/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2026/02/22/TELEMMGLPICT000464392144_17717769342330_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqRo0U4xU-30oDveS4pXV-Vv4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-22T19:12:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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