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": 144038,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "34511890b021471b3ad5ee2cffac2f0d",
            "title": "I was fit & healthy at 22 when I dropped down 'dead' in bathroom…my heart stopped after 2 weeks of 'silent' symptoms",
            "description": "CAMBRIDGE University graduate Isabel Beresford-Cole knows she’s one of the lucky ones - she survived a cardiac arrest thanks to her...",
            "content": "CAMBRIDGE University graduate Isabel Beresford-Cole knows she’s one of the lucky ones – she survived a cardiac arrest thanks to her fast-thinking best friend.\nThe 22-year-old was fit and healthy, going to the gym daily, before suddenly collapsing in ... [6208 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/39300445/student-collapses-heart-stops-symptoms/",
            "image": "https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/8bdbf078-cd05-4e1b-abe8-f3c09d7566b1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=503&h=616&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T09:05:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8312b3960d99553247ab475ee7eeed9a",
                "name": "The Sun",
                "url": "https://www.thesun.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "247bcee9f9da749a319faf48c8696064",
            "title": "North Wales mum 'with IBS' given months to live",
            "description": "Ruth Lloyd-Williams, 61, from Llandudno, lived with IBS symptoms for decades",
            "content": "Ruth Lloyd-Williams, 61, from Llandudno, lived with IBS symptoms for decades\nA mother who endured IBS for decades before being given a terminal bowel cancer diagnosis has declared she is resolute in outliving her prognosis and is manifesting a \"mirac... [7303 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/north-wales-mum-with-ibs-34069844",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.dailypost.co.uk/article34069843.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/1_embedded12074508.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T07:13:39Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6b1a4098879ce2c4961ad64c526d75e0",
                "name": "North Wales Live",
                "url": "https://www.dailypost.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "76463ad6b9fcad72fdc2d0fcfea84339",
            "title": "Man misdiagnosed with blood cancer for seven years",
            "description": "A hospital apologises after Simon Pearson had 40 unnecessary operations.",
            "content": "A man who underwent seven years of unnecessary treatment after he was misdiagnosed with blood cancer said he had \"lost all sense of reality\".\nSimon Pearson, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, was incorrectly diagnosed with polycythaemia vera, a chronic an... [2903 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yeykrk88mo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/afe0/live/b5c35af0-6038-11f1-9ce7-1953d6a1a733.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T05:22:58Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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