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": 141312,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "f9437f78297ec839fedae7148ac1bedc",
            "title": "Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine",
            "description": "A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.",
            "content": "Around 200 lives have been saved in England so far thanks to a vaccine which protects against cervical cancer, according to analysis published in the Lancet.\nThe first study of its kind showed that deaths have fallen sharply since school-age girls we... [4059 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621z28z138o",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/05ea/live/bb292b00-697a-11f1-a63b-a7cb529e1ca8.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-17T23:01:33Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8f9eeaca5fa8b0399dad87ca85a8e011",
            "title": "New Research Pinpoints Hidden Brain Trigger That Causes Autism, Changing How We Understand The Condition",
            "description": "“The autism diagnosis has dramatically increased. It's alarming,” a netizen said. . Health & Wellness, Lifestyle",
            "content": "ADVERTISEMENT\nFor years, mainstream neurodevelopmental research overwhelmingly focused on abnormalities within the cerebral cortex—the brain region responsible for thinking, learning, and processing information—as the primary driver of autism.\nHoweve... [6396 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.boredpanda.com/researchers-pinpointed-a-hidden-trigger-in-the-brain-that-causes-autism/",
            "image": "https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/fb_image_6a32e011b1ccf.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-17T20:29:56Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "89f46cfaed1e90633d667b6ed42c4451",
                "name": "Bored Panda",
                "url": "https://www.boredpanda.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c1213d11bdb78677dbdca9557f8ab83d",
            "title": "New Plan Scales Back C.D.C.’s Work on Diseases Abroad",
            "description": "The State Department is taking over much of the control of global health initiatives, for which critics say the department does not have the expertise.",
            "content": "Even as the world is racing to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan that could decimate support for programs that detect and snuff out exactly such outbreaks.\nThe ... [1632 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/health/pepfar-cdc-cuts.html",
            "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/06/15/multimedia/15dc-pepfar-01-zchk/15dc-pepfar-01-zchk-facebookJumbo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-17T19:43:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2f580dc49292a1caf59cd86dd3c9e60b",
                "name": "The New York Times",
                "url": "https://www.nytimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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