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": 141836,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "bf5c1e17dc42c4ce361b9f2082da283f",
            "title": "Hantavirus cruise ship latest: Third Briton has suspected hantavirus, health chiefs warn",
            "description": "Five cases have been confirmed in the outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise and three suspected",
            "content": "Swipe for next article\nLiveupdated\nHantavirus cruise ship latest: Third Briton has suspected hantavirus, health chiefs warn\nFive cases have been confirmed in the outbreak on the MV Hondius cruise and three suspected\nA new suspected case of hantavirus... [6876 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hantavirus-cruise-ship-outbreak-live-symptoms-argentina-uk-landfill-b2972753.html",
            "image": "https://static.independent.co.uk/2026/05/08/02/HANTAVIRUS-CONTACTOS-RASTREO_8_473.jpg?width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T07:38:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0d5c0adfb0e84da759fe48296b9f6e55",
                "name": "The Independent",
                "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a3efc456b9e058361d7d66225bfc6f29",
            "title": "Third British national has suspected hantavirus infection, government says",
            "description": "The patient is on the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, which was visited by the cruise ship in April.",
            "content": "A third British national has suspected hantavirus in connection with an outbreak on board the cruise ship MV Hondius, the government has said.\nThe patient is currently on the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, where the ship stopped in mid-A... [3742 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr41vq2ero",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/ad9b/live/d59ba950-4a7a-11f1-bd52-e755d604ece4.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T06:03:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "efae57f33c86262328d4485de6d09101",
            "title": "This Book May Cause Side Effects by Helen Pilcher review - can you think yourself sick?",
            "description": "Fearing the worst can lead to physical changes, according to this fascinating study of a strange medical phenomenon",
            "content": "In Roald Dahl’s 1980 masterpiece The Twits, Quentin Blake’s illustrations demonstrate how Mrs Twit’s horrible attitudes eventually ended up deforming her looks. “If a person has ugly thoughts,” wrote Dahl, “it begins to show on the face.”\nIn her late... [4711 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/08/this-book-may-cause-side-effects-by-helen-pilcher-review-can-you-think-yourself-sick",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/de50cba2fc64305c3367a12fae8047cb4e9d1769/512_0_5119_4096/master/5119.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=a72902bac57f0649592e9fb60ea26315",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T06:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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