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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": 134918,
"articles": [
{
"id": "307545608dfb7cfa6810db2e08998964",
"title": "3 evacuated from hantavirus cruise ship as Spain says it will dock in Canary Islands despite local opposition",
"description": "Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.",
"content": "Three patients suspected of having the hantavirus were evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship and were on their way to the Netherlands for medical care, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The three are German, Dutch and British national... [8178 chars]",
"url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hantavirus-canary-islands-cruise-ship-new-case-switzerland/",
"image": "https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/05/06/f7400fc5-5bdc-41b9-91c0-18220da6754b/thumbnail/1200x630/1bd8c48e6b7611b2c1059d3737144ecd/2026-05-06t162243z-779442542-rc2m3lafmrtn-rtrmadp-3-cruiseship-hantavirus-explainer.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-05-07T02:04:04Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "f2f2ed82d991515dcc85d86a1374a9ae",
"name": "CBS News",
"url": "https://www.cbsnews.com"
}
},
{
"id": "f14178e89e0694779dcd49e907ee135f",
"title": "Hantavirus Patients Land in Amsterdam With More Cruise Ship Evacuations Planned",
"description": "Three people with possible symptoms of the disease were evacuated on Wednesday morning from the MV Hondius before it headed to the Canary Islands.",
"content": "Infected people aboard the MV Hondius, a Dutch cruise ship with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, have started to be evacuated from the ship and brought to hospitals in Europe.\nTwo patients have landed in the Netherlands, where they are receiving medi... [1012 chars]",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/world/hantavirus-cruise-ship.html",
"image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/05/06/multimedia/06int-cruise-virus-01-zghb/06int-cruise-virus-01-zghb-facebookJumbo.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-05-07T00:26:14Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
"name": "The New York Times",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
}
},
{
"id": "2bc9e482783f1045ae6fbff3472aa250",
"title": "How a deadly hantavirus outbreak unfolded on a cruise ship",
"description": "A deadly outbreak of the rare hantavirus unfolded over the course of weeks on a cruise ship that sailed from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic Ocean.",
"content": "CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A deadly outbreak of the rare hantavirus unfolded over the course of weeks on a cruise ship that sailed from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic Ocean, stopping at or near remote islands on the way ... [4977 chars]",
"url": "https://apnews.com/article/hantavirus-outbreak-cruise-ship-timeline-a04e0f8097d068a00fe94bf19f840240",
"image": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/aa55461/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2835x1889+95+0/resize/980x653!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fa1%2Fbe%2Fa65be8881d48cd05840a6b6601ae%2F172beabeda934407aaf24786b63244bf",
"publishedAt": "2026-05-06T22:37:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "b356d47a35dfffa723fc8131b36c3ed1",
"name": "AP News",
"url": "https://apnews.com"
}
}
]
}