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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": 123724,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "35547528dbdfd94f2f275f582accd6c1",
            "title": "HIV rape accused 'deliberately wrecked lives'",
            "description": "Prosecutors are giving their closing speech in the trial of Adam Hall, who denies multiple offences.",
            "content": "A man accused of infecting seven men with HIV \"deliberately wrecked\" their lives, prosecutors have said.\nAdam Hall, 43, is accused of having unprotected sex with young men he met online or at bars in Newcastle without telling them he was HIV positive... [2973 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8r8dd2y88o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/b6d8/live/568e52b0-9dd8-11f0-9f23-2534d63ace40.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T13:24:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "65d1e91947bfeadcb022f8dcc7538db0",
            "title": "I lost 3st on Mounjaro - now, I’m losing an organ",
            "description": "Two months after taking the weight-loss drug, I started suffering excruciating pain. I believe the ‘miracle’ medication was to blame",
            "content": "In 2024, I was working a job I hated and living in a nightmare house share. The combination of frustration and stress had also caused me to resort to an old favourite pastime: eating. Consequently, towards the end of the year, I was the heaviest I ha... [11797 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/06/mounjaro-gallbladder-removed-weightloss-drugs/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2026/02/05/TELEMMGLPICT000461135845_17703099022670_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqHqoF-apYYbzdQrcfmCbS53wSCF1R0VweJ7DS2UnVMSQ.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T13:08:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "20ec98a9c65a886167afc9ad485ddda9",
            "title": "How ADHD became a multimillion-pound industry for private equity",
            "description": "NHS has become dependent on privately run services to diagnose ADHD and autism as patients given legal right to assessments under Right to Choose initiative",
            "content": "Most assessments are done online, with more than 80 per cent of referrals to some clinics resulting in patients getting an ADHD diagnosis.\nAnalysis by The Times shows that three private-equity backed providers of NHS ADHD services generated combined ... [7345 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/how-adhd-became-a-multimillion-pound-industry-for-private-equity-2g6q3w5h2",
            "image": "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/%2Fcf70fc7d-415e-4f52-89ef-09b638c30d14.jpg?crop=1600%2C900%2C0%2C0&resize=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-06T10:25:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9e0e1039092ec85a0b069e08b66bb337",
                "name": "The Times",
                "url": "https://www.thetimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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