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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": 123396,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "2a31c813e61ebac23328b4be2b032f9f",
            "title": "My bloating at Christmas lunch turned out to be cancer at just 19",
            "description": "A WOMAN whose bloating was so uncomfortable she couldn’t finish her Christmas dinner was shocked to find out the cause was cancer, aged just...",
            "content": "A WOMAN whose bloating was so uncomfortable she couldn’t finish her Christmas dinner was shocked to find out the cause was cancer, aged just 19.\nBella Bayliss says doctors blamed her symptoms on “women’s problems”, but the now 25-year-old is living w... [4554 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/37732287/bloating-christmas-lunch-cancer-teenager/",
            "image": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/newspress-collage-yp9lrqg31-1766587125892.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&1766587192&w=1920&h=1080&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-01T17:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8312b3960d99553247ab475ee7eeed9a",
                "name": "The Sun",
                "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4b6501617a50523650dfd9faab829735",
            "title": "The perfect way to beat the slump: how to tackle mid-afternoon energy dips",
            "description": "In the dead of winter, it can be hard to keep your alertness up when it gets darker. Here are a few good habits that will help you stay productive",
            "content": "It is an all-too-familiar scenario: you reheat a bowl of last night’s noodles for lunch, devour it, then return to your desk and gradually droop over the course of the afternoon, to the point at which you are battling to keep your eyes open. Or perha... [9233 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/dec/19/the-perfect-way-to-beat-the-slump-techniques-to-tackle-mid-afternoon-energy-dips",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/52b4724ff0dff6b7673ee90e569b1ddeb9c73124/4_0_1816_1452/master/1816.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=403823686edb40383f31481aea50cc44",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-01T16:02:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1d6e2b386ce5d40565a1e225b56bc0b4",
            "title": "Surge in private prostate surgery ‘shames NHS’",
            "description": "Waiting list crisis means men are turning their backs on the public health service as a treatment option",
            "content": "The number of men turning to private healthcare for prostate cancer surgery has more than doubled in an increase that “shames the NHS”.\nMore than 13,000 men paid for healthcare services for any type of prostate surgery in 2024 compared with 6,970 tre... [4979 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/01/doubling-men-going-private-prostate-cancer-surgery/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2025/12/10/TELEMMGLPICT000439471244_17653715322210_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq-IWLY18X4-CzgyIcjLEAj0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-01T15:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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