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": 133146,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "eb4acc6869daf3a76f5b714c7d1a643e",
            "title": "American Hantavirus Patient Ordered to Stay in Quarantine Despite Plans to Leave",
            "description": "An American passenger from the hantavirus-infected cruise ship had wanted to depart an Omaha quarantine facility.",
            "content": "An American exposed to the deadly hantavirus while on a cruise from Argentina said on Monday that she is not being allowed to leave a federal quarantine unit in Nebraska.\nAngela Perryman, 47, received a federal quarantine order, a copy of which she p... [2271 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/hantavirus-ship-passenger-quarantine-order.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/05/18/multimedia/18nat-hantavirus-quarantine-ftmk/18nat-hantavirus-quarantine-ftmk-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-18T19:05:05Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bd7e8f3caf51fbfa3525a6f5decff519",
            "title": "American doctor working in Congo tests positive for Ebola, CDC and aid group say",
            "description": "An American medical missionary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a confirmed case of Ebola, and is being taken to Germany for treatment.",
            "content": "An American doctor working with a medical missionary organization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has tested positive for Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the missionary group said Monday.\nThe individual was being tak... [2235 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-doctor-ebola-congo-missionary/",
            "image": "https://assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2026/05/18/9d0cd7b0-5d74-4290-9ac8-c2c9a0493832/thumbnail/1200x630/991f38febb26f177658c6139bff4a8f3/gettyimages-2276381480.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-18T18:29:39Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2f2ed82d991515dcc85d86a1374a9ae",
                "name": "CBS News",
                "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f102ef71c6046b5363c046a59ee2f8a5",
            "title": "American doctor among new cases in Congo's rare Ebola outbreak",
            "description": "An American doctor is among the newly confirmed cases in a Congo outbreak of a rare Ebola variant with no approved vaccines, according to Congolese officials.",
            "content": "KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An American doctor in Congo is among the newly confirmed cases in an outbreak of a rare variant of the Ebola virus with no approved vaccines or therapeutics, Congolese officials said Monday. Deaths have surpassed 100 in two pro... [6577 chars]",
            "url": "https://apnews.com/article/congo-ebola-305bf410419bdb1311020b72111c12e7",
            "image": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/68412e0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5186x3456+0+1/resize/980x653!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fbf%2Ff5%2F7994679aa482f273ab44f74df4c9%2Fdadaadd7e05342b498a8ab37ac258612",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-18T18:20:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b356d47a35dfffa723fc8131b36c3ed1",
                "name": "AP News",
                "url": "https://apnews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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