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": 139052,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "04929943a728e5fb8416ea45f5c6aa3b",
            "title": "Early-onset cancers are on the rise. Knowing your family history is crucial.",
            "description": "Researchers have not been able to find a single cause for the rise in early-onset cancers. Instead, research suggests a myriad of factors play a role…",
            "content": "By Cara Anthony and Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, for KFF\nListen in and play along as hosts Cara Anthony and Blake Farmer test their knowledge with a HealthQ quiz on detecting early-onset cancers.\nBryce Ramsey of Madison, Mississippi, was 33 ... [5400 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/21/800057035/health/early-onset-cancers-are-on-the-rise-knowing-your-family-history-is-crucial/",
            "image": "https://www.dailykos.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/HealthQ_EARLYONCANCER_webimage.jpeg?w=1500",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-21T15:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fccdaf9da659a74f535b1ca81304ae2a",
                "name": "Daily Kos",
                "url": "https://www.dailykos.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5959f77334378a2bdb72a882b56ea912",
            "title": "How fast you should be able to walk a mile at every age",
            "description": "It's not just how far you walk, as pace can also reveal important information about health and longevity.",
            "content": "Walk this way at every age.\nMovement is essential for a long, healthy life, and walking has been growing in popularity as a simple way to boost heart rate, increase metabolism and lower the risk of disease.\nIt’s not just how far you walk, though; the... [2246 chars]",
            "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/06/21/health/how-fast-you-should-be-able-to-walk-a-mile-at-every-age/",
            "image": "https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/131739358.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-21T14:54:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9d7e5ab9f28d430ac851e2b94640216c",
                "name": "New York Post",
                "url": "https://nypost.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "93cbb8b2759e1c8eacad45271dc711a7",
            "title": "After Opening Up About Cancer, A Man Feels Hurt When His Friend Shifts The Focus To Herself",
            "description": "The best of the internet, sifted, and sorted.",
            "content": "We all have people in our lives who seem to make everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, about themselves.\nIt’s pretty frustrating to deal with folks like this because, no matter what you tell them, it always seems to come back to them.\nUgh!\nIt’s so annoy... [3042 chars]",
            "url": "https://twistedsifter.com/2026/06/after-opening-up-about-cancer-a-man-feels-hurt-when-his-friend-shifts-the-focus-to-herself/",
            "image": "https://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/oooocococo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-21T14:02:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "ef607012c3a99a15797372646126d053",
                "name": "TwistedSifter",
                "url": "https://twistedsifter.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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