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": 123196,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "70a4d56e52b0537c2b62fba28d8a3574",
            "title": "Static mammogram machine at Crawley Hospital helping attendance",
            "description": "Screening helps detect cancers at an earlier stage leading to more effective treatment, doctors say.",
            "content": "A new static site for breast screening in West Sussex has led to greater attendance among eligible women, with uptake improving across the region more broadly.\nNHS breast screening is offered to women aged from 50 and up to their 71st birthday, inclu... [1131 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g84ken8g7o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/2da9/live/cbd3aeb0-3984-11f1-9f77-ef126d088d2c.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-17T05:23:53Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9b36f43c3527f57f58aa0f1bb2501a63",
            "title": "Family 'skimped to get by' during toddler's cancer treatment",
            "description": "There is a bespoke fund to cover travel costs for families of children undergoing cancer treatment - but it only applies in England.",
            "content": "For years, Alyssa McCrea wasn't sure when life with her young twin girls, Aria and Arabella, would feel normal again.\nIn summer 2022 Aria was diagnosed with leukaemia, aged three, and the family were thrust into a world of long hospital stays and reg... [3676 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6j0e3l84ro",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/2788/live/395eb5b0-37e6-11f1-8c2f-f7769b959c48.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-17T05:21:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "527417d13af95ef5487851bc798084ca",
            "title": "Gut-friendly supermarket foods: what to buy (and what to avoid)",
            "description": "The British Heart Foundation says some gut-friendly products contain too much salt and sugar. Peta Bee asks top nutritionists for their verdicts",
            "content": "Keeping our gut microbiome in check with a regular intake of plant foods and fermented products can influence our digestion, immunity and mental wellbeing. But it may come as a surprise to learn that not every food marketed as gut-friendly is good fo... [14429 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/best-gut-friendly-foods-g7htdp7k2",
            "image": "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/6f0473d0-29ae-4b30-a05c-53b0de4b61fa.jpg?strip=all&format=webp&crop=6068px%2C3413px%2C480px%2C747px&resize=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-17T04:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9e0e1039092ec85a0b069e08b66bb337",
                "name": "The Times",
                "url": "https://www.thetimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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