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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": 120494,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "e98138950c6b6561db20c9012621ec71",
            "title": "'Vape Brain' sculpture highlights dangers to teens",
            "description": "Students at Hertford Regional College hope their project will alert others to the risks of vaping.",
            "content": "A sculpture of a brain made from boxes of seized illegal vapes is touring schools in Hertfordshire to highlight the impact on mental health of nicotine dependency.\nThe parametric sculpture was made by 3D design students from Hertford Regional College... [2482 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8xd8dn205ro",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/09bc/live/1a5329b0-d00f-11f0-8c06-f5d460985095.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-03T06:05:09Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cc9685b6c047e26b8ead163bcf294c1c",
            "title": "In this Slough hospital, nobody washes their hands. It’s for health reasons",
            "description": "With a move that flies contrary to conventional wisdom, NHS staff have pulled the plug on handwashing as part of the fight against superbugs",
            "content": "Intensive care unit consultant Dr Karim Fouad Alber had a few questions when he and his colleagues were asked by his hospital to start washing their hands less. “Multiple,” he acknowledges, politely.\nThe first sounds pretty reasonable. “Whether [not ... [10133 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/03/wexham-park-hospital-slough-banned-sinks/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2025/12/01/TELEMMGLPICT000449982946_17646013188700_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bq_nEqMilhjwPG5Y_F6Xe5l-fqoyUonH2MRkqRk34zJv0.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-03T06:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f45fffefebffebe812139aab77c23777",
            "title": "Warning symptoms of deadly whooping cough after UK outbreak kills 11 babies",
            "description": "A breakthrough new vaccine spray could be the first to stop spread of the deadly whooping cough infection, which causes infants to ‘turn blue’, after a horror outbreak",
            "content": "A breakthrough new vaccine spray could be the first to stop spread of the deadly whooping cough infection, which causes infants to ‘turn blue’, after a horror outbreak\nA new vaccine is being developed against whooping cough after a devastating outbre... [3964 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/warning-symptoms-deadly-whooping-cough-36340560",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/article36340600.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200/2_mother-holding-child-baby-on-the-living-room-The-baby-is-sick-having-some-cough.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-03T00:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6cae1c46bb8b237dc470e08f1d7ce41a",
                "name": "The Mirror",
                "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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