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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": 125330,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "96de0827bd821f736900c237ba19537b",
            "title": "How walking saved a Cornwall dad after burnout and addiction",
            "description": "Dean Cooper shares how Cornwall's country lanes helped him deal with burnout and stress.",
            "content": "Dean Cooper, 46, an IT director from Lewannick, said the idea to help others came after he was \"brought to his knees\" by burnout three years ago - and his recovery began when he \"just started walking\".\nLiving in the South West but working in IT and c... [4932 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4wl4rm971o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/334c/live/b3faf980-0e53-11f1-9d6e-2b202385ad19.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T07:13:43Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "96c174d4f3025e71879316eb08723117",
            "title": "'That's me!': Hundreds tell BBC that medication triggered gambling and other addictions",
            "description": "More than 250 people contacted us describing impulsive behaviour side effects from prescription drugs.",
            "content": "Emma couldn't understand why she had suddenly developed a gambling problem, until she read a recent BBC News article.\nOver the course of the past year, she had lost tens of thousands of pounds - but had never imagined that her medication might be res... [6912 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce948d9gxevo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/6fd3/live/29566790-0e5a-11f1-801d-ed3cff6bf876.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T07:04:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7acb93b024a613d7679a234717ad707e",
            "title": "I’m a doctor. I would never use weight loss jabs",
            "description": "Uncertainty surrounds their long-term effectiveness given the risk of rapid weight regain in people when they stop using the drugs",
            "content": "Research published in the British Medical Journal compared long-term outcomes between people who used weight loss injections (such as Wegovy and Mounjaro), and those who lost weight using diet and exercise. The study found that weight is much more ra... [2706 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/20/im-a-doctor-i-would-never-use-weight-loss-jabs/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2026/02/20/TELEMMGLPICT000423422093_17716056253890_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Comment",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-20T17:06:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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