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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": 132594,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "fc01ee32627f91e384512f4a8521d7e4",
            "title": "The truth about the 40-cent supplement that promises to slash heart disease risk and naturally lower cholesterol",
            "description": "As heart disease surges nationwide, Americans are scrambling to lower their risk. A cheap supplement may help reduce the risk by lowering blood pressure and harmful cholesterol levels.",
            "content": "As heart disease surges nationwide, Americans are scrambling to lower their risk.\nCardiovascular disease - a group of conditions including high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke, among others - is America's biggest killer, claiming nearly 1 mil... [5237 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15719041/truth-cheap-garlic-supplement-heart-disease-cholesterol.html",
            "image": "https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2026/04/09/17/107774391-0-image-m-25_1775753762558.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-13T03:33:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4aca9b1f6287a5f7a6dea911063bdb49",
                "name": "Daily Mail",
                "url": "https://www.dailymail.co.uk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d3e08531230ebdc874b1e24a056d8579",
            "title": "Prehistoric children’s remains show syphilis-like disease spread through ancient Vietnam",
            "description": "Researchers have for decades believed that of these diseases, only syphilis could be transmitted congenitally, lending to the assumption that syphilis began with Christopher Columbus’ journeys. Traces...",
            "content": "Researchers have for decades believed that of these diseases, only syphilis could be transmitted congenitally, lending to the assumption that syphilis began with Christopher Columbus’ journeys.\nTraces of disease found in prehistoric remains may rewri... [2061 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/prehistoric-children-remains-show-syphilis-182202525.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/os/en/jerusalem_post_articles_818/c185073ae20520d83d3517140ded018b",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-12T18:22:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "99e8a2cb4638bb798cf9167e5af5b83b",
                "name": "Yahoo",
                "url": "https://www.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8a0262ac6cc16320c1ae3b579f480c6f",
            "title": "Edna Foa, Who Pioneered Exposure Therapy to Treat PTSD, Dies at 88",
            "description": "A psychologist, she urged patients to confront the things that frightened them, revolutionizing her field’s approach to post-traumatic stress disorder.",
            "content": "Edna Foa, an Israeli American psychologist who pressed her field — and her patients — to more directly confront fear and anxiety, revolutionizing the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, died on March 24 at a hospital in Philadelphia. She was... [1573 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/health/edna-foa-dead.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/04/11/multimedia/11Foa-cgqh/11Foa-cgqh-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-12T17:16:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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