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United States Health News API
Get the live top health headlines from United States with our JSON API.
Get API key for the United States Health News APIAPI 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": 134274,
"articles": [
{
"id": "d3dfa362626094ce9ee0b4bc9013ee91",
"title": "Hantavirus possibly transmitted human to human on stranded cruise ship, WHO says",
"description": "Passengers aboard the ship are in good spirits but may have to quarantine for \"eight weeks,\" a World Health Organization official told CBS News.",
"content": "The World Health Organization said Tuesday it believes there was rare human-to-human transmission of the hantavirus on a cruise ship at the center of the outbreak, with three people now dead after coming down with the illness.\n\"We do believe that the... [6998 chars]",
"url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spain-agrees-welcome-hantavirus-cruise-ship-who/",
"image": "https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/05/05/5c8d111d-9b19-4fa2-8a86-8dc4b6b2cdb3/thumbnail/1200x630/478cad5f5c45ccd8a16c47e899312095/gettyimages-2273953428.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-05-05T23:17:22Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "f2f2ed82d991515dcc85d86a1374a9ae",
"name": "CBS News",
"url": "https://www.cbsnews.com"
}
},
{
"id": "26ec103226678a3da0745394c50b4598",
"title": "Ozempic Is Killing Off Weight Loss Surgeries. That's a Problem",
"description": "The number of bariatric surgeries performed annually in the U.S. has taken a sharp drop lately, new research shows, coinciding with the rise of GLP-1 therapy.",
"content": "The growing use of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs has had an outsized, sometimes negative, impact on all sorts of industries, particularly those related to food. Another such casualty, research out today suggests, seems to be weight loss surgery.\nRese... [6953 chars]",
"url": "https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-might-be-killing-off-weight-loss-surgeries-thats-a-problem-2000754277",
"image": "https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/05/Semaglutide-pen-1200x675.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-05-05T17:45:57Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "b86966b1ce9f29cc65fd4b3bf0671e5c",
"name": "Gizmodo",
"url": "https://gizmodo.com"
}
},
{
"id": "8860156b2aedb996edafe3f0617cebfe",
"title": "Human-to-human hantavirus transmission suspected on board stranded cruise ship, WHO says",
"description": "The cruise ship carrying almost 150 passengers at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak was marooned in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, waiting for two ill crew members to be evacuated for treatment.",
"content": "The cruise ship carrying almost 150 passengers at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak was marooned in the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, waiting for two ill crew members to be evacuated for treatment.\nSome rare human-to-human transmission of the v... [4849 chars]",
"url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hantavirus-cruise-ship-stranded-crew-evacuation-human-transmission-rcna343606",
"image": "https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2026-05/260505-2-cruise-rs-7e70e3.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-05-05T16:08:57Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "3bab6463853c054dc51d2427c1a5b69e",
"name": "NBC News",
"url": "https://www.nbcnews.com"
}
}
]
}