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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": 128216,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a8773c912ad9d94b34b0e3d23cf0f441",
            "title": "Psychology says people with true class don't perform kindness for an audience - they're kind in parking lots, grocery stores, and phone calls with customer service because their character doesn't chan",
            "description": "They don’t adjust their behavior depending on who’s watching - because their standards aren’t performative, they’re consistent. Real class shows up in the small, unseen moments, where kindness isn’t for approval - it’s just who they are.",
            "content": "You can learn a lot about a person by watching them when nothing is at stake.\nNot in a crisis. Not at a dinner party. Not in the moments when they know they're being evaluated. The moments that actually matter are the ones that don't seem to matter a... [7282 chars]",
            "url": "https://vegoutmag.com/lifestyle/gen-psychology-says-people-with-true-class-dont-perform-kindness-for-an-audience-theyre-kind-in-parking-lots-grocery-stores-and-phone-calls-with-customer-service-because-their-characte/",
            "image": "https://vegoutmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/things-upper-class-people-judge-about-your-house-within-30-seconds-of-walking-in-that-youve-never-thought-to-fix-or-hide.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-22T20:47:37Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8f7b76325aad2d3b788c53ae2dff5f2a",
                "name": "VegOut",
                "url": "https://vegoutmag.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f7a3350e58ef8baeb4633fac60155d18",
            "title": "21 People Treated with Unsterilized Surgical Tools at Hospital. Patients Were Not Told for Weeks, Despite Risk of HIV",
            "description": "One of the patients was a 15-year-old boy, who will now need to do follow-up testing to ensure he is disease-free for the next six months, per his parents",
            "content": "NEED TO KNOW\nA hospital in the U.K. treated 21 patients, including a 15-year-old boy, with unsterilized surgical instruments\nPatients were not informed of the mistake for three weeks, despite the fact that they may have been exposed to bloodborne pat... [3021 chars]",
            "url": "https://uk.news.yahoo.com/21-people-treated-unsterilized-surgical-193606031.html",
            "image": "https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ei5VhEn4_n81UwKqw1LJ7A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/people_218/08d9141ebee49faabf8f242ac765b538",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-22T19:36:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "63e8b8305a4f2da1ae366a2ec1999561",
                "name": "Yahoo News UK",
                "url": "https://uk.news.yahoo.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7733e378c64b8d34c8ff016176719f8c",
            "title": "The mind-controlling zombie that makes our closest cousins seek out their own killers… and it could affect humans too",
            "description": "Could a parasite encourage chimpanzees into encounters with leopards?",
            "content": "In 2016 scientists found a parasite is able to manipulate the behaviour of its chimpanzee hosts, making them morbidly attracted to the odour of their only natural predator.\nToxoplasma gondii is a tiny single-celled cat parasite that also infects a ra... [1866 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/toxoplasma-gondii-chimpanzees",
            "image": "https://c02.purpledshub.com/uploads/sites/62/2026/02/Do-animals-grieve.jpg?w=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-22T19:28:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "dabec0e7fc5ef3079adcf6d8a28723a8",
                "name": "BBC Wildlife Magazine",
                "url": "https://www.discoverwildlife.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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