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": 146530,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "aa8cf3bef18cf8a0ed0169d55edc48e4",
            "title": "Hantavirus-hit cruise ship leaves Cape Verde after three evacuated",
            "description": "A British man is among three evacuees sent to the Netherlands after displaying symptoms while aboard the MV Hondius.",
            "content": "A Dutch cruise ship hit with a hantavirus outbreak has left Cape Verde, after three people on board were medically evacuated.\nA British man, 56, a Dutch crew member, 41, and a German national, 65, were sent from the MV Hondius to the Netherlands for ... [4333 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y093d5n9ko",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/3ca2/live/a4e50820-4984-11f1-93fe-cfc8bb3523fc.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T19:49:12Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a69f531944f9c8400305f06264ff6675",
            "title": "Hantavirus: Air ambulance lands in Amsterdam airport",
            "description": "The flight is believed to be carrying at least one of three patients evacuated from the MV Hondius ship. Spain is contentiously allowing the ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak to dock in the Canary Islands.",
            "content": "Mark Hallam | Richard Connor with AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters\nPublished 05/06/2026Published May 6, 2026\nThe flight is believed to be carrying at least one of three patients evacuated from the MV Hondius ship. Spain is contentiously allowing the ship hit by... [15183 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dw.com/en/hantavirus-air-ambulance-lands-in-amsterdam-airport/live-77063670",
            "image": "https://static.dw.com/image/77062496_6.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T19:21:37Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "67e0c40c5e24b3fec372ab75763abad9",
                "name": "DW.com",
                "url": "https://www.dw.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3b27255ed2232f995baa82beda4e4d8a",
            "title": "Revealed: the mysterious ‘dark’ proteins that might play a big role in biology",
            "description": "Thousands of ‘dark proteins’ have been reclassified as peptideins and added to databases as a new category.",
            "content": "The human genome contains around 20,000 genes that hold instructions for making working proteins, as most genetic databases now indicate. However, some scientists say there might be thousands more ‘dark proteins’ with unknown but potentially importan... [2606 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01492-x?error=cookies_not_supported&code=097b81da-bdac-419a-9f8a-b59fbe9e653c",
            "image": "https://media.nature.com/lw1200/magazine-assets/d41586-026-01492-x/d41586-026-01492-x_52378960.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T19:12:24Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7abf0df285fbe93cdccffcc7c4088737",
                "name": "Nature",
                "url": "https://www.nature.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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