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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": 125646,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "3c63a275e1cce09dc568477f427eedb6",
            "title": "Ulster University: Car ban proposals outside campus dropped",
            "description": "The DfI said it determined the plan \"would not achieve the best outcomes for the local community\".",
            "content": "Plans to ban cars from a busy street outside Ulster University's Belfast campus have been dropped.\nAll vehicles except buses, bicycles and those holding blue badges were to be prevented from using part of York Street under the proposals.\nStudent lead... [2014 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w4dzz92yxo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/4fe2/live/322b0560-2ce1-11f1-b297-95b0a0a8331e.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T05:36:38Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5ae7ad9b1d8e4e902af61d377c79dc88",
            "title": "'Girls Aloud's Sarah Harding saved my life,\" says Manchester mum",
            "description": "Annette Illing says she has \"a future\" after signing up to a trial funded in memory of the singer.",
            "content": "When mother-of-three Annette Illing received a letter inviting her to take part in a trial funded by The Sarah Harding Breast Cancer Appeal, she did not hesitate to sign up.\n\"I started off thinking 'why not?' I'm going to take part,\" said the 39-year... [2380 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg9xk24zldo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/cfaf/live/f34a1d30-2863-11f1-aa9a-954fcc5bd365.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T05:34:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e6e1462b2fe72bb107288efa605d0f5f",
            "title": "Bullied, ignored, and undiagnosed: How ‘invisible’ autistic girls face a double disadvantage",
            "description": "Some researchers believe that girls and women who have high verbal ability and anxiety may be better served by different diagnostic labels than ‘autism’. But this could exacerbate the problem of girls being overlooked and left behind. Marina Gask reports",
            "content": "For Betsey Gorman, 19, attending school as a child was something of a nightmare. “I’ve always been very anxious, and I found the school environment overwhelmingly difficult, without understanding why,” she says. “I didn’t express my anxiety outwardly... [11527 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/health-and-families/girls-autism-diagnosis-school-bullied-undiagnosed-b2946201.html",
            "image": "https://static.the-independent.com/2026/03/30/14/00/Betsey-Gorman.jpeg?trim=0,0,53,0&width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-31T05:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0d5c0adfb0e84da759fe48296b9f6e55",
                "name": "The Independent",
                "url": "https://www.independent.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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