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": 138062,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "1c78232a871275f1c190c129ae7362b6",
            "title": "What to Know About the Latest Ebola Outbreak",
            "description": "The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after about 80 people died from the virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo.",
            "content": "An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has prompted the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency.\nAbout 80 deaths have been attributed to the disease in Ituri Province of the D.R.C.,... [1683 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/world/africa/what-to-know-ebola-africa.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/05/17/multimedia/17int-Ebola-WTK-zplv/17int-Ebola-WTK-zplv-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-18T02:21:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0af1d6c10b5e7a3cd4ebf56311d54e8b",
            "title": "Medic with rat virus symptoms treated in UK hospital as 9 more linked to infected cruise to arrive in Britain to isolate",
            "description": "A MEDIC showing symptoms of the deadly rat virus is being treated in a specialist hospital in the UK.\nIt could be the first case of hantavirus...",
            "content": "A MEDIC showing symptoms of the deadly rat virus is being treated in a specialist hospital in the UK.\nIt could be the first case of hantavirus in Britain since the outbreak began, as the MV Hondius steams towards the Netherlands.\nThe healthcare worke... [2746 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.the-sun.com/news/16374533/medic-rat-virus-symptoms-hospital-cruise-isolation/",
            "image": "https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2026/05/newspress-collage-tihurnaog-1779055488126.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&1779041175&w=1920&h=1080&crop=1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-17T22:13:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5476f6bd6c7db8564b473e6ba7ef64aa",
                "name": "the-sun.com",
                "url": "https://www.the-sun.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "760b5a0823122329522761eb4a959bd2",
            "title": "Americans in Congo believed to have had exposure to suspected cases| STAT",
            "description": "At least one American may have developed symptoms, sources say. The Ebola outbreak has been declared a global health emergency.",
            "content": "A number of Americans who are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are believed to have had exposure to suspected cases in the country’s latest Ebola outbreak, with several deemed to have had high-risk exposures, sources have told STAT. At least o... [5885 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/17/ebola-outbreak-congo-americans-exposure-suspected-cases/",
            "image": "https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AP26136413586187-1024x576.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-17T21:55:39Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e7edc451da369c52fbca1e6129c86ba9",
                "name": "statnews.com",
                "url": "https://www.statnews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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