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": 131258,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "72375e483d54d8351688f4fec6c10418",
            "title": "Loneliness may be silently eroding your memory, new research reveals",
            "description": "Loneliness may affect older adults' memory performance but may not speed up cognitive decline over time, according to a study published in Aging & Mental Health.",
            "content": "NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\nFeeling lonely may take a toll on older adults' memory — but it may not speed up cognitive decline, according to a new study.\nResearchers from Colombia, Spain and Sweden analyzed data from more than 10,000 ... [4777 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/health/loneliness-may-silently-eroding-memory-new-research-reveals",
            "image": "https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2026/04/elderly-man-sitting-alone-fox-news-001.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-19T00:33:20Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a8408ad388422503ac33101396026891",
                "name": "Fox News",
                "url": "https://www.foxnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "553eb29f84819854074b6c1e41a6f3ac",
            "title": "Doctors couldn't diagnose her for years but ChatGPT got it right in minutes",
            "description": "After years of frustrating misdiagnoses, 23-year-old Phoebe Tesoriere of Wales desperately turned to ChatGPT for answers -- and the bot figured out her conditions when her doctors couldn't.",
            "content": "After years of frustrating misdiagnoses, a Welsh woman desperately turned to ChatGPT for answers — and the AI bot got it right when her doctors couldn’t.\nPhoebe Tesoriere, of Cardiff, Wales, had been suffering from seizures, falls and balance problem... [1817 chars]",
            "url": "https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/world-news/doctors-couldnt-diagnose-her-for-years-but-chatgpt-got-it-right-in-minutes/",
            "image": "https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/04/phoebe-tesoriere-diagnosed-woman-used-125907947.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T21:04:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9d7e5ab9f28d430ac851e2b94640216c",
                "name": "New York Post",
                "url": "https://nypost.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f50b7e3fb304212b547e67953e80917f",
            "title": "Department of Health confirms measles case in Rhode Island",
            "description": "TheRhode Island Department of Health said that a case of measles had been confimred in the state.",
            "content": "The Rhode Island Department of Health said that a case of measles had been confirmed in the state.\nThe case was identified in a male in his late 40s from Providence county who had recent international travel and returned to Rhode Island on April 13.\n... [1982 chars]",
            "url": "https://turnto10.com/news/local/department-of-health-confirms-measles-case-in-rhode-island",
            "image": "https://turnto10.com/resources/media2/16x9/6000/1320/0x313/90/e7c8645c-500f-4b87-8801-043c7fa595a9-GettyImages2202122580.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T21:00:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "4631f2cbaa3050bb0841389ca86ae94d",
                "name": "WJAR",
                "url": "https://turnto10.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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