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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": 124818,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c88aff3603899057f0fa0d3033763e25",
            "title": "My Sister Kept Her Man a Secret for 25 Years. Now That I Know Why, I Wish She’d Never Told Me.",
            "description": "He is not who he says he is.",
            "content": "Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here.\nDear Care and Feeding,\nI just found out that my (single, never married) sister has been having an affair with a married man for over 25 years.\n... [2915 chars]",
            "url": "https://slate.com/advice/2026/04/sister-advice-secret-affair.html",
            "image": "https://compote.slate.com/images/a7b366ea-c2c5-4996-a87d-5b16e6719475.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&width=1560",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-02T17:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c8e1cfcb970c5e9a0a496c6b603e74b2",
                "name": "Slate",
                "url": "https://slate.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f3ef1060ee79e36422f0cd998ca4da94",
            "title": "Eastern Utah measles infections double within a week, health officials say",
            "description": "Health officials have confirmed a doubling of measles cases in Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah counties in the past week.",
            "content": "VERNAL — As the spread of measles continues to accelerate across the state, the TriCounty Health Department has confirmed that cases have doubled in Daggett, Duchesne and Uintah counties.\nThe health district now has 56 confirmed measles infections, u... [2215 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.ksl.com/article/51476369/eastern-utah-measles-infections-double-within-a-week-health-officials-say",
            "image": "https://img.ksl.com/slc/3123/312326/31232676.jpg?filter=kslv2/responsive_story_lg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-02T16:01:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6486035d1c6580e0b37c6e3b271d2d50",
                "name": "KSL.com",
                "url": "https://www.ksl.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "29f1206534daff9816ec39773997a0e6",
            "title": "Antibiotics Turned This Woman’s Limbs Into an Unsettling Horrorshow",
            "description": "The woman developed the shocking skin condition just two weeks after starting a conventional treatment for rosacea.",
            "content": "A woman’s skin care treatment inadvertently turned into its own nightmare. A recent case report describes how she developed a rare reaction to an antibiotic that left her limbs blackened.\nDoctors detailed the dermatological mishap Wednesday in the Ne... [2190 chars]",
            "url": "https://gizmodo.com/antibiotics-turned-this-womans-limbs-into-an-unsettling-horrorshow-2000741516",
            "image": "https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/04/Minocycline-induced-hyperpigmentation-1200x675.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-02T15:50:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b86966b1ce9f29cc65fd4b3bf0671e5c",
                "name": "Gizmodo",
                "url": "https://gizmodo.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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