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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": 129856,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b4f3955b37f16fb03ea19c1c93818e2a",
            "title": "Doctors can’t diagnose toddler’s illness after a year",
            "description": "Yasmin Whittington to take part in Glasgow’s Kiltwalk to raise money for charity which improves healthcare for children such as her daughter",
            "content": "Doctors have been unable to diagnose a 14-month-old girl’s mystery illness for nearly a year.\nYasmin Whittington’s daughter Elyza suffers from an unknown condition that causes sickness, poor feeding, low muscle tone and chronic fatigue.\nMs Whittingto... [3324 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/07/doctors-diagnose-baby-illness-scotland/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2026/04/06/TELEMMGLPICT000476917411_17754884979981_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpYXgImHvDk4V15T1DyRqQkWy_sGK6oioMu5BzggyGUY.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T05:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "de1423786a091ddc16b74a4b1e138459",
            "title": "Teacher, 23, in hospital with rare diagnosis after asking ChatGPT chilling questions",
            "description": "Phoebe Tesoriere, from Cardiff, was told she had Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia despite initially being misdiagnosed with countless conditions, including anxiety",
            "content": "Phoebe Tesoriere, from Cardiff, was told she had Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia despite initially being misdiagnosed with countless conditions, including anxiety\nA young woman used ChatGPT to help uncover her rare diagnosis — after she was initially m... [3903 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teacher-23-hospital-rare-diagnosis-36976853",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/article36976864.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/2_Woman-uses-Chat-GPT-to-uncover-rare-diagnosis-after-she-was-told-it-was-anxiety.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-07T04:24:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6cae1c46bb8b237dc470e08f1d7ce41a",
                "name": "The Mirror",
                "url": "https://www.mirror.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5d6aba179e8ac6c8f13e52c85425a70e",
            "title": "Metformin drug taken by millions has ‘striking’ unexpected health benefit, study suggests",
            "description": "Researchers in the US looked at the impact on prostate cancer patients",
            "content": "Thought to be on prescription for over 120 million people globally, metformin is a common medication for Brits.\nIt’s reported that almost three million NHS patients were identified as being on anti-diabetic drugs in the year 2024-24 – which metformin... [4156 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.ladbible.com/news/health/metformin-diabetes-drug-benefit-prostate-cancer-761244-20260406",
            "image": "https://resizer.ladbiblegroup.com/ogimage/v3/assets/bltcd74acc1d0a99f3a/blt8f432f909061dd53/69d407655f27aa9e4a222c1c/metformin-benefit-cancer.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-06T19:27:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3b970e4c2f6645b2fbe0790a7f380c38",
                "name": "LADbible",
                "url": "https://www.ladbible.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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