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": 139688,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "15a579c1dde27aaf289e3021cead12be",
            "title": "Dengue en la Argentina: calculan que más de la mitad de la población ya estuvo infectada y pueden darse casos más graves",
            "description": "Basado en el análisis de miles de donantes de sangre, el estudio muestra que la circulación real del virus fue muy superior a la registrada y advierte que los brotes recientes elevan el riesgo de casos graves\n- LA NACION",
            "content": "Más de la mitad de las personas que viven en las regiones argentinas donde hay mayor circulación de dengue ya estuvo en contacto con el virus. La conclusión surge de un estudio publicado en The Lancet Regional Health – Americas por investigadores del... [5356 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/dengue-en-la-argentina-calculan-que-mas-de-la-mitad-de-la-poblacion-ya-estuvo-infectada-y-pueden-nid02062026/",
            "image": "https://www.lanacion.com.ar/resizer/v2/el-analisis-de-miles-de-donantes-de-sangre-JM6YCSBAHZHOFFPYYMWW7QTFQQ.jpg?auth=5630ebfecfa50473a4e6fdb25e6da537bae83ffe8bcb8a0aa65c131d41f2b648&width=1200&height=800&quality=70&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T17:32:00Z",
            "lang": "es",
            "source": {
                "id": "2640b1411388f99ee05468bf9bd9a602",
                "name": "La Nación",
                "url": "https://www.lanacion.com.ar"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a995844dc95469e0061c337509f6c70e",
            "title": "Why Google wants to release millions of mosquitoes in the US",
            "description": "Google's Debug research program plans to release millions of sterile mosquitoes to fight species that spread diseases like dengue. How does the method work — and should humans interfere with nature like this?",
            "content": "What's the best way to combat disease-spreading mosquitoes? More mosquitoes! At least that's the plan of scientists at Google's Debug program. The researchers want to release 16 million mosquitoes each in the US states of Florida and California in a ... [3739 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dw.com/en/why-google-wants-to-release-millions-of-mosquitoes-in-the-us/a-77390494",
            "image": "https://static.dw.com/image/65378216_6.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T17:20:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "67e0c40c5e24b3fec372ab75763abad9",
                "name": "dw.com",
                "url": "https://www.dw.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d41bea04c3b4f85deac6e4aff05905be",
            "title": "5 Chair Exercises To Restore Walking Strength After 60",
            "description": "A CPT shares 5 chair moves that restore walking strength after 60.",
            "content": "Trainer shares 5 chair moves that restore walking strength after 60.\nAging is no walk in the park. Stairs feel harder than they used to, or maybe walks become shorter, slower, or more tiring. Over time, weakened muscles around your hips, thighs, calv... [4458 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.eatthis.com/chair-exercises-restore-walking-strength-after-60/",
            "image": "https://www.eatthis.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/05/mature-couple-walking-exercise_2549243137.jpg?quality=82&strip=all",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T15:15:16Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "00462490cbe354bd56d77df72504765f",
                "name": "Eat This Not That",
                "url": "https://www.eatthis.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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