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": 133542,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "25df01de86c98b6d5b20b03be6f46f36",
            "title": "Chinese Orbiter Crushes Starlink With a Tiny 2-Watt Laser Fired From 36,000 KM Above Earth",
            "description": "China’s satellite laser downlink shows how a low-power beam from extreme distance could change the race for faster, more resilient space communications.",
            "content": "The laser did not arrive clean. It had fallen through 36,000 kilometers of heaving sky above southwestern China, and the atmosphere had done what it always does to light. The beam scattered. The signal smeared. By the time it touched the ground at Li... [5799 chars]",
            "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/05/china-satellite-laser-downlink-beats-starlink/",
            "image": "https://dailygalaxy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/China-Just-Sent-Data-From-Space-With-a-2-Watt-Lase-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-19T11:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "15b3a075005c2186c70ef27f4d08b583",
                "name": "The Daily Galaxy",
                "url": "https://dailygalaxy.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5856c59033b041281b4fe73c523d3fcd",
            "title": "A critical window to stop hantavirus is opening. Not all countries are managing exposed travelers the same way",
            "description": "The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius arrived at its last stop Monday. Now, the waiting begins.",
            "content": "The hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius arrived at its last stop Monday. Now the waiting begins.\nThe diagnosis of a strain of the Andes strain of hantavirus — an infection that’s fatal in about 40% of cases — on a ship carrying people from rou... [11344 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/health/countries-managing-hantavirus-travelers-different-ways",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/c-gettyimages-2276345145.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-19T11:00:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "895ab205e16b3f760523b8ee48a96224",
            "title": "W.H.O. Chief Is ‘Deeply Concerned’ by Speed and Scale of Ebola Outbreak as Cases Rise",
            "description": "The warning came shortly after Congo officials reported more than 130 suspected deaths and 513 cases, a sharp rise since the outbreak was first reported over the weekend.",
            "content": "The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday that he was “deeply concerned about the scale and speed” of the Ebola outbreak spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, as the suspected death toll in Congo climbed to over 13... [716 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/world/africa/ebola-outbreak-deaths-congo-who.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/05/19/multimedia/19xp-ebola-cases-jkcv/19xp-ebola-cases-jkcv-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-19T09:03:13Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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