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United States Health News API
Get the live top health headlines from United States with our JSON API.
Get API key for the United States Health News APIAPI 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": 140856,
"articles": [
{
"id": "8dc3d789e431d17be54006881bfcc814",
"title": "Mental Health Can Complicate Family Planning",
"description": "Five stories show the hurdles that people with psychological diagnoses face when considering parenthood.",
"content": "Deciding whether to have a child is one of the most consequential choices that someone will make. In many ways, it’s a leap of faith: Nobody can know ahead of time exactly what parenthood will look or feel like.\nProspective parents often worry about ... [867 chars]",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/well/mind/mental-health-family-children.html",
"image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/08/well/00well-mh-top-poster/00well-mh-top-poster-facebookJumbo-v2.png",
"publishedAt": "2026-06-17T09:00:44Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
"name": "The New York Times",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
}
},
{
"id": "5f8a635f2c78a3dd2da1324a965fee42",
"title": "Several men diagnosed with rare infection after frequenting the same gay bathhouse",
"description": "Human-to-human sexual transmission of the virus had not been seen until now.",
"content": "The CDC has recently reported on a rare infection among men in France. Each of the men presented with symptoms of dermatophilus, a rare skin infection caused by the bacterium Dermatophilus congolensis.\nAlso known as “mud fever” or “rain scald,” the f... [2349 chars]",
"url": "https://www.queerty.com/several-men-diagnosed-with-rare-after-frequenting-the-same-gay-20260616/",
"image": "https://queerty-wp.b-cdn.net/2026/06/sauna-shutterstock-2641096383.jpg?focus_crop=1000,526,0.35,0.36&width=1200&height=630&format=jpeg",
"publishedAt": "2026-06-16T23:00:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "2bb683140d9803874080ed884305f7b6",
"name": "queerty.com",
"url": "https://www.queerty.com"
}
},
{
"id": "f08dfc479f33231bc75a514f0703e078",
"title": "Hantavirus cruise passenger says she’s being forced to quarantine in Nebraska",
"description": "Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said her isolation was needed to protect public health, though the CDC has recommended home quarantine under certain conditions.",
"content": "A passenger from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship has said she is being held in quarantine away from her home against her will and despite the recommendations of a medical review by the CDC.\nHealth Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long dec... [313 chars]",
"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/06/16/hantavirus-cruise-passenger-says-shes-being-forced-quarantine-nebraska/",
"image": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/YDR5XUJTVXEXELD745J7FWY3N4_size-normalized.jpg&w=1440",
"publishedAt": "2026-06-16T22:50:44Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "aa250375ed4d1652ad2c07377b69f537",
"name": "The Washington Post",
"url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com"
}
}
]
}