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United States Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from United States with our JSON API.

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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 States.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=us&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 126338,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "613b3b10366b2aea19201fa772110ecc",
            "title": "11 Surprising Signs of High Blood Sugar Doctors Want You to Know",
            "description": "If you aren't checking it often, it can be hard to tell if your blood sugar is high. Here, doctors share the symptoms of high blood sugar that call for action.",
            "content": "For people with diabetes, regularly checking their blood sugar levels is part of their daily life. But if you don't have diabetes, you likely aren't measuring your blood sugar very often, if at all. That's why knowing the symptoms of high blood sugar... [9529 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.prevention.com/health/a70319826/high-blood-sugar-signs/",
            "image": "https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/young-woman-managing-type-1-diabetes-with-royalty-free-image-1770862654.pjpeg?crop=1.00xw:0.751xh;0,0.0366xh&resize=1200:*",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T14:21:14Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1334afdd6ffbe3f3fe159adb07c6b08e",
                "name": "Prevention",
                "url": "https://www.prevention.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "47eaf9247ec53260410afe61742f96b1",
            "title": "Baby Who Had Traveled Overseas Is City’s First Measles Case of Year",
            "description": "The infant, who had not been vaccinated, was New York’s first case. Last year there were 20 cases.",
            "content": "Measles has exploded in South Carolina since the beginning of the year, with more than 700 cases reported. And this week, a case was reported in New York City, the first in 2026.\nThe patient is an infant who had recently returned from traveling overs... [1241 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/nyregion/measles-baby-nyc.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/02/05/well/WELL-MEASLES-EXPLAINER1-nytoday-01/WELL-MEASLES-EXPLAINER1-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T13:54:16Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5d154e68f6d3830af0f4ca802b1f90df",
            "title": "Pregnancy and antidepressants, Moderna: Morning Rounds",
            "description": "Today's health news includes the latest on Moderna’s rejected vaccine app, new questions about lung cancer in \"never-smokers,\" and more.",
            "content": "Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here.\nGood morning. Sorry to keep talking about the weather, but I got outside in mid-thirties weather yesterday and I felt more alive than I... [6169 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/12/health-news-getting-off-antidepressants-during-surgery/",
            "image": "https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/AdobeStock_389126219_Editorial_Use_Only-1024x576.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-12T12:50:56Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e7edc451da369c52fbca1e6129c86ba9",
                "name": "statnews.com",
                "url": "https://www.statnews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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