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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": 125496,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "16925a6366b9c2e13c0292b33f2c76b2",
            "title": "Typhus from fleas hits record level in L.A.: Here are the hot spots",
            "description": "The Los Angeles County Public Health Department identified 220 cases of flea-borne typhus last year, a big increase over the 187 cases in 2024.",
            "content": "Attention pet parents: Los Angeles County is reporting a record number of flea-borne typhus cases.\nPublic health officials are warning pet owners to take precautions for themselves and their four-legged family members. Fret not: There are several sim... [2852 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-03/typhus-from-fleas-hits-record-level-in-l-a-here-are-hot-spots",
            "image": "https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2b4d422/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1617x849+96+0/resize/1200x630!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F69%2F3f%2Fd052ce2e4acc805e59d4b3233cd4%2Ffleas-close.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-03T10:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6c4fa75a787f2ec713503abb3f822104",
                "name": "Los Angeles Times",
                "url": "https://www.latimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c7689e7f778341bfdc9abe93b16d22b3",
            "title": "They Get Drunk Without Drinking",
            "description": "Inside the mystifying syndrome that can upend people’s lives and reputations.",
            "content": "In 2019, Mark Mongiardo, then a high school athletic director, was pulled over in Sullivan County, N.Y., after a dinner with the boys’ golf team. He’d eaten a hot dog and some fries, washed down with a soda.\nHe hadn’t had a sip of alcohol, but the of... [1597 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/well/autobrewery-syndrome.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/30/multimedia/WELL-AUTOBREWERY1-qkbt/WELL-AUTOBREWERY1-qkbt-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-03T09:00:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "23db6aa6fe3933802c26aa6097ca2fbf",
            "title": "Measles confirmed at Safeway in Portland, health officials say",
            "description": "People who visited the Safeway at 2800 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. within the last week may have been exposed to the measles, the Oregon Health Authority said.",
            "content": "People who visited the Safeway at 2800 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd. within the last week may have been exposed to the measles, the Oregon Health Authority said Thursday.\nOfficials released the specific times and dates of possible exposure.\nBetween 8 a.m. and... [731 chars]",
            "url": "https://katu.com/news/local/measles-confirmed-at-safeway-in-portland-health-officials-oregon-health-authority",
            "image": "https://katu.com/resources/media2/16x9/1280/1320/center/90/1c987fe8-a7bc-4439-8834-51bc5f05ece5-MEASLESrashcaptioned.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-03T03:22:22Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "537cc845df05b4e11ed45d5b88166915",
                "name": "KATU",
                "url": "https://katu.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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