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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": 130320,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "81af04d37d1287956eeb947fe026214d",
            "title": "How you CAN eat to beat cancer.. and even steak is on the menu",
            "description": "It is, undoubtedly, a grim - and frightening - statistic: half of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives.",
            "content": "It is, undoubtedly, a grim – and frightening – statistic: half of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. And despite survival prospects having leapt in recent decades, it still kills a collective 170,000 people in the UK each year.\nBehind... [11438 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15687957/How-you-eat-beat-cancer-steak-menu.html",
            "image": "https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2026/03/28/19/107497229-0-image-a-26_1774726555703.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-29T00:28:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4aca9b1f6287a5f7a6dea911063bdb49",
                "name": "Daily Mail",
                "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "15800e974b125930de11a438845fc67e",
            "title": "Our skin is falling off and no-one can tell us why",
            "description": "Posts with #TSW have had over a billion views on TikTok, sparking research into this mystery skin condition.",
            "content": "Bethany Gamble was given steroid creams from the age of two to help manage her eczema. They worked - for years her skin condition was just a small part of her life.\nAnd then, suddenly it wasn't.\nAt the age of 18, Bethany began to notice something was... [6903 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx26pzpr71ko",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/branded_news/1200/cpsprodpb/b39f/live/692a8340-2a9a-11f1-934f-036468834728.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-29T00:06:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "da05009467a13bbcc84557ea09d86db3",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ca8dac55a19f6b178c82c1c18aa737de",
            "title": "'This climb is for Alison and for every family in Northern Ireland affected by blood cancer'",
            "description": "Loved ones to mark 10 years since losing wife and mum to lymphoma with Morocco mountain trek",
            "content": "Loved ones to mark 10 years since losing wife and mum to lymphoma with Morocco mountain trek\nA Co Armagh family is set to take on one of the most demanding climbs in North Africa to help drive forward worldclass blood cancer research happening right ... [5578 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/this-climb-alison-every-family-33651466",
            "image": "https://i2-prod.belfastlive.co.uk/article33651505.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/0_Alison-Williamsonjpeg.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-28T19:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "78881a9cd935152c13a00724e7ab8166",
                "name": "Belfast Live",
                "url": "https://www.belfastlive.co.uk"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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