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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": 122474,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "e3e71c1a5803891e3252a1176feed1c8",
            "title": "Intermittent fasting may make little difference to weight loss, review finds",
            "description": "But researchers say it could still improve someone's overall health through helpful changes to some body functions.",
            "content": "Intermittent fasting may not help people who are overweight or obese lose weight, a large review suggests.\nThe researchers say the popular practice of fasting on some days of the week and eating normally on others \"may make little to no difference to... [2766 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ge7n3pq62o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/3d3d/live/9a7b75a0-0b44-11f1-9972-d3f265c101c6.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T13:38:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0b8fe28a790aa1024000b107f44343f1",
            "title": "North London measles outbreak: Unvaccinated pupils could be excluded from school",
            "description": "Children identified as close contacts of people with the disease could be excluded for three weeks",
            "content": "Parents in north London have been told their children could be excluded from school if they are not fully vaccinated against measles amid an outbreak of the highly-contagious disease.\nUnvaccinated pupils identified as close contacts of people with me... [3291 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99jyexve1jo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/fd95/live/62d51520-0b35-11f1-b7e1-afb6d0884c18.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T11:24:36Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cd38be71db98952827a3fbff348a8dae",
            "title": "Nipah virus claims another life after nurse in India spends weeks in coma",
            "description": "One of the two people infected with Nipah virus in India has died, with the death the second one to be reported since the outbreak began in West Bengal.",
            "content": "One of the two people infected with Nipah virus in India has died.\nAn unnamed nurse, 25, became infected with the rare, brain-damaging virus in late December after coming into contact with infected date sap.\nWhile her colleague, who was also sickened... [2257 chars]",
            "url": "https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/16/nipah-virus-claims-another-life-nurse-india-spends-weeks-coma-26929223/",
            "image": "https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SEI_282028775-2a99_1771240137.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200&h=630&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-16T11:08:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b40633e34a62c20b9ec4adf5e8bee789",
                "name": "Metro.co.uk",
                "url": "https://metro.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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