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": 137348,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d4cd9fd0bfe9d8d5a41dca379ba2a3f9",
            "title": "Ebola Cases May Top 20,000 in Three Months, C.D.C. Says",
            "description": "Still, the risk to people in the United States remains low, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report Friday.",
            "content": "The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have begun as early as February and may exceed 20,000 cases over the next three months, according to modeling published on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\nStill, the... [2409 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/cdc-ebola-projection.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/05/multimedia/05trump-news-ebola-pvfz/05trump-news-ebola-pvfz-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T22:04:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "359e7df9dd31b066c03d71d63f24f1a4",
            "title": "Senior NIH official pushes MAHA strategy to skeptical ADA audience",
            "description": "Richard Woychik tells American Diabetes Association conference that MAHA goals match NIH priorities. 'We just have to acknowledge that things are changing.'",
            "content": "NEW ORLEANS — A senior adviser to the leader of the National Institutes of Health opened his speech to a national gathering of diabetes researchers with a full-throated endorsement of the Make America Healthy Again movement. Then, during the fireside... [6666 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2026/06/05/ada-conference-new-orleans-richard-woychik-synergy-nih-maha/",
            "image": "https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Rick-Woychik-2-ADA-1024x576.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T19:53:31Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e7edc451da369c52fbca1e6129c86ba9",
                "name": "statnews.com",
                "url": "https://www.statnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "e2628075cf83b11e9e9008754536a945",
            "title": "New York's Latest Tourist? A Rare, Potentially More Severe Form of Lyme Disease",
            "description": "This week, health officials reported the first known case of Borrelia mayonii in New York.",
            "content": "A rare form of Lyme disease is making inroads into the United States.\nOn Thursday, researchers and local health officials in New York detailed a case of Lyme caused by the bacterium Borrelia mayonii—the first ever detected in the state. Though the pe... [3913 chars]",
            "url": "https://gizmodo.com/new-yorks-latest-tourist-a-rare-potentially-more-severe-form-of-lyme-disease-2000768195",
            "image": "https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/06/Tick-warning-sign-1200x675.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T19:15:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b86966b1ce9f29cc65fd4b3bf0671e5c",
                "name": "Gizmodo",
                "url": "https://gizmodo.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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