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": 136280,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "32eb43f1e11870de6c69b42203199143",
            "title": "No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says",
            "description": "No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration that was quietly made public last week.",
            "content": "No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration that was quietly made public last week.\nThe analysis comes nearly six months after former FDA vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad ... [4136 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/no-child-deaths-definitively-linked-covid-shots-fda-says-rcna346514",
            "image": "https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_nbcnews-fp-1200-630,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2025-11/251103-fda-rs-ee1ad6.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T20:01:24Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3bab6463853c054dc51d2427c1a5b69e",
                "name": "NBC News",
                "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "13655a8ea3ecfca42e8100ab55fc032e",
            "title": "American Doctor With Ebola Says He Is ‘Optimistic’ for Recovery",
            "description": "Dr. Peter Stafford, a medical missionary in the Democratic Republic of Congo, tested positive for Ebola on Sunday. He is receiving treatment in Germany.",
            "content": "As a surgery resident at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Peter Stafford had his sights set on working in Africa, where he and his wife, Rebekah, hoped to serve as medical missionaries.\nOn Sunday, while working his dream job, Dr. Stafford, 39, tested ... [1228 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/ebola-american-doctor-peter-stafford.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/05/27/us/27nat-ebola-doctors/27nat-ebola-doctors-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T16:45:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "41f0e3bbca6f6bf8a7de3298e45f9d38",
            "title": "Ebola risk in Congo now ‘very high’, WHO warns",
            "description": "There have been 82 confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with seven confirmed deaths.",
            "content": "The World Health Organization raised its risk level for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo to “very high” on Friday, following attacks on treatment centers in conflict-hit regions where the disease is spreading rapidly.\nThe new risk assessment... [3268 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.politico.eu/article/ebola-risk-congo-now-very-high-who-warns/",
            "image": "https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,height=630,fit=crop,quality=80,onerror=redirect/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/22/GettyImages-2276982420-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T15:52:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3ba3d17ed2b9c7b829a43e4ec3f59eb0",
                "name": "politico.eu",
                "url": "https://www.politico.eu"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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