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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": 127958,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "e2b4054f928f4f8261b4bc33c70193e8",
            "title": "'Black men need to push for change over prostate cancer testing'",
            "description": "Maurice Blake says he never knew that one-in-four black men face prostate cancer - double the average.",
            "content": "Three years ago, Maurice Blake was diagnosed with prostate cancer.\n\"I didn't have any of the traditional symptoms, apart from the random signs of blood every so often,\" said the 52-year-old building services engineer from Manchester.\nThe diagnosis ca... [3940 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0ddxq1ljko",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/b6d9/live/aeb515d0-194f-11f1-b402-73299da4d55f.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T07:15:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8d08198fa7ee105baaa9b3b52168ab72",
            "title": "Norwich Hepatitis C survivor speaks out on infected blood",
            "description": "A Norwich woman has spoken out for the first time about the guilt she feels after surviving Hepatitis C contracted through infected blood.",
            "content": "Teresa Goodwin, from Norwich, was aged just 18 when she lost her stillborn daughter at 33 weeks in February 1990.\nAfter a traumatic 24 hours, she was given a transfusion of five units of blood, leaving her infected with Hepatitis C - a lifelong and p... [3147 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/25902687.norwich-hepatitis-c-survivor-speaks-infected-blood/",
            "image": "https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/20607356.jpg?type=og-image&xType=0&yType=36",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T06:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c3efbe95dcba7b0e2762f38689825b83",
                "name": "Eastern Daily Press",
                "url": "https://www.edp24.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5b44a9f020b9fc561e08f931a01f93ed",
            "title": "How to beat high blood pressure in just three weeks WITHOUT drugs. Anyone can make these simple tweaks",
            "description": "High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, affects 14 million adults in the UK and numbers are rising. Pictured: File photo",
            "content": "It is a condition with few, if any, symptoms – yet it dramatically increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and even dementia.\nHigh blood pressure, also known as hypertension, affects 14million adults in the UK and numbers are ris... [11735 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15624207/beat-high-blood-pressure-weeks-WITHOUT-drugs.html",
            "image": "https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2026/03/07/17/106950645-0-image-m-72_1772904166357.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-08T01:40:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4aca9b1f6287a5f7a6dea911063bdb49",
                "name": "Daily Mail Online",
                "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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