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": 142920,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ffcf86a14ad35d0e43829f79a01007d6",
            "title": "Things people do that make me squirm",
            "description": "Dr. Bruce Hirsch, MD, of Northwell Health shared five surprisingly common habits that can spread germs and increase the risk of illness.",
            "content": "What’s worse than spreading a disease? Not even realizing when you’re doing it.\nUnfortunately, it happens more often than most people think because of simple, everyday behaviors that may seem harmless.\nDr. Bruce Hirsch, MD, an attending physician of ... [4325 chars]",
            "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/06/19/health/infectious-disease-doc-things-people-do-that-make-me-squirm/",
            "image": "https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/newspress-collage-m22gozis6-1781813607119.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1781799241&w=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T10:29:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9d7e5ab9f28d430ac851e2b94640216c",
                "name": "New York Post",
                "url": "https://nypost.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "352eae00c6a557510a8e7ab882dbe9c8",
            "title": "Thousands of baby seals died on two remote sub-Antarctic islands. Scientists now think they know why",
            "description": "A deadly strain of bird flu sweeping through remote islands near Antarctica has devastated the native wildlife population, killing an estimated 13,000 seal pups, as well as penguins and seabirds, researchers say.",
            "content": "A deadly strain of bird flu sweeping through remote islands near Antarctica has devastated the native wildlife population, killing an estimated 13,000 seal pups, as well as penguins and seabirds, researchers say.\nDrone surveys conducted by the Austra... [1719 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/australia/bird-flu-seal-pups-dead-heard-and-mcdonald-islands-intl-hnk",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/rs94889.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T05:40:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "ca9b44f0d03ded3274338fb3858ce3d1",
            "title": "Thousands of baby seals died on two remote sub-Antarctic islands. Scientists now think they know why",
            "description": "A deadly strain of bird flu sweeping through remote islands near Antarctica has devastated the native wildlife population, killing an estimated 13,000 seal pups, as well as penguins and seabirds, researchers say.",
            "content": "A deadly strain of bird flu sweeping through remote islands near Antarctica has devastated the native wildlife population, killing an estimated 13,000 seal pups, as well as penguins and seabirds, researchers say.\nDrone surveys conducted by the Austra... [1719 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/australia/thousands-australia-seals-dead-heard-and-mcdonald-islands-intl-hnk",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/rs94889.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T05:40:18Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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