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": 138128,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8a16d2381d21565b66e3e74d0751b3c3",
            "title": "Life with PMDD: 'Like the Grim Reaper coming every month'",
            "description": "Women diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric disorder discuss how it impacts their lives.",
            "content": "Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide\nThe morning after she tried to end her life, Annika Waheed's period started. The feelings of despair left her and the \"weight of the world\", as she describes it, lifted.\n\"Did I really do that?\" she... [6860 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx21kypwpzno",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/55c8/live/e36066f0-4ee1-11f1-bd52-e755d604ece4.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T23:17:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "953a7b8a751984e43763b4b1620674c6",
            "title": "3 Ways To Reduce Colorectal Cancer Risk In Your 30s",
            "description": "As told by a medical oncologist.",
            "content": "Here Are 3 Things You Can Actually Do To Lower Your Risk Of Colorectal Cancer As A 30-Something, Because Rates Are Spiking Among Millennials\nAs told by a medical oncologist.\nColorectal cancer, long associated with older people, is now affecting mille... [1969 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenniferadams2/how-to-lower-colon-cancer-risk",
            "image": "https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2026-05/14/16/thumb/CzfPLQvmd.jpg?crop=1250:654;0,88%26downsize=1250:*",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T16:31:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b697b2aa95a614f8ec47e331bf4afa20",
                "name": "BuzzFeed",
                "url": "https://www.buzzfeed.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4777cba01123a18b92937b673559410b",
            "title": "Man who drank 24 pints of cider a DAY has remarkable turnaround",
            "description": "'Drinking doesn't have to be the be-all and end-all'",
            "content": "'Drinking doesn't have to be the be-all and end-all'\nA man who used to drink 24 pints of cider every day has turned his life around and gone clean.\nAfter starting drinking in his teens and then working in the service industry as a young adult, Derek ... [3730 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/man-who-drank-24-pints-10959539",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.cornwalllive.com/article10959648.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_Derek-Cornwall.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T15:02:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "774a6f6d35c4eef31db7c62ea3448e82",
                "name": "Cornwall Live",
                "url": "https://www.cornwalllive.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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