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": 135792,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ccdbf63f8e5cd4c0f8f3675f1202d37c",
            "title": "Babies are bleeding to death as parents reject a vitamin shot given at birth",
            "description": "Vitamin K shots, which help the blood to clot, are one of three key interventions for newborns, along with an antibiotic eye ointment and the hepatitis B vaccine.",
            "content": "This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive its biggest stories as soon as they’re published.\nThey entered the world the way babies should, with piercing cries announci... [17074 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/health/vitamin-k-shot-propublica",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/c-vitamine-k.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T12:00:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "912a59d5edf14a60a8129c358473881c",
            "title": "Alzheimer’s risk slashed by eating more of one common food, study suggests",
            "description": "Eating eggs regularly was associated with up to 27% lower Alzheimer's risk, according to a Loma Linda University study of nearly 40,000 U.S. adults over 65.",
            "content": "NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\nA new study has revealed a link between egg consumption and reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease.\nThe research from California’s Loma Linda University, published in the Journal of Nutrition, aimed to analyze... [4064 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/health/alzheimers-risk-slashed-eating-one-common-food-study-suggests",
            "image": "https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2026/01/cracking-eggs.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T11:00:47Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a8408ad388422503ac33101396026891",
                "name": "Fox News",
                "url": "https://www.foxnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "3899491c3c1468e65c97e9968939e05c",
            "title": "British authorities identify new suspected Hantavirus Cruise case (Live Updates)",
            "description": "The MV Hondius is en route to the Canary Islands, where it will be allowed to dock for the first time since a hantavirus outbreak was confirmed on board.",
            "content": "Topline\nU.K. health authorities on Friday identified a new suspected case of Hantavirus linked to the cruise ship outbreak—a British man currently in the remote South Atlantic island Tristan da Cunha—while the World Health Organization said a KLM fli... [4632 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/05/08/hantavirus-infected-cruise-ship-new-suspected-case-identified-dutch-flight-attendant-tests-negative--latest-updates/",
            "image": "https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/69f9ef336956accb35324d50/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T10:54:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c4e32b557a3dd75225975f11fb68a3a9",
                "name": "Forbes",
                "url": "https://www.forbes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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