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": 124318,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "0e114361809b74129693216e11ab4f30",
            "title": "Bowel cancer treatment ‘halts disease for three years’",
            "description": "Zero relapses after treatment regime that sees patients have immunotherapy before surgery, study shows",
            "content": "Treating bowel cancer patients with immunotherapy before surgery stopped the spread of the disease for three years, research showed.\nA new study found zero relapses among patients who received the treatment, with far better results than would be expe... [2784 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/20/bowel-cancer-treatment-surgery-halts-disease-three-years/",
            "image": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2026/04/20/TELEMMGLPICT000377442290_17767067639280_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQf0Rf_Wk3V23H2268P_XkPxc.jpeg?impolicy=OG-Standard",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T21:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fc579b3cc7a823fd67a74b9ed6f0796",
                "name": "The Telegraph",
                "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "314632828ac50e7cc1ed17cef1a237d0",
            "title": "Disgraced mesh surgeon Tony Dixon costs NHS £20m in compensation",
            "description": "The NHS confirms it has paid millions to patients injured in operations involving Tony Dixon.",
            "content": "A disgraced surgeon whose artificial bowel mesh procedures injured more than 450 patients has cost the NHS more £20m in compensation payments, the BBC has been told.\nBristol surgeon Tony Dixon was removed from the medical register last year for serio... [414 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrmv48d43jo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/070d/live/ca108dd0-44fa-11ef-b9f5-adf0805847e7.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T15:32:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "df1a3afd0c767ba7b62ef3c7d4b77313",
            "title": "Eating fruit is linked to lung cancer? Here’s what you need to know about that new study",
            "description": "A small conference study sparked headlines linking fruit to lung cancer. Here’s why the science tells a very different story.",
            "content": "The idea that fruit and vegetables might cause cancer sounds bizarre. For decades, studies have shown that people who eat more plants tend to live longer, healthier lives, with lower rates of heart disease, stroke and several common cancers.\nLung can... [5796 chars]",
            "url": "https://theconversation.com/eating-fruit-is-linked-to-lung-cancer-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-that-new-study-281003",
            "image": "https://images.theconversation.com/files/730952/original/file-20260420-63-bjy5tc.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C906%2C5760%2C2880&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-20T14:27:52Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "344b3e5c4a3152c0cbebe5418ae064b7",
                "name": "The Conversation",
                "url": "https://theconversation.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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