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": 134792,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ace78125ca0e7d3a69b653942277568d",
            "title": "CDC COVID-19 vaccine study won't be published",
            "description": "U.S. health officials have stopped the publication of a study on the COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness in preventing hospitalizations.",
            "content": "NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials stopped the publication of a study on whether the COVID-19 vaccine was keeping adults from becoming sick enough to have to go to the hospital.\nA U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman on Wednesday... [2937 chars]",
            "url": "https://apnews.com/article/cdc-covid19-vaccine-study-ea3a8e56d0dcdb7428f060b395b5ff23",
            "image": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/1028ec2/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2806x1870+0+1/resize/980x653!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fab%2F5f%2Fb7f40597f1a7a5293beb65b6545a%2F1ba7e1f52470464d82f419bdac14363f",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-22T20:59:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b356d47a35dfffa723fc8131b36c3ed1",
                "name": "AP News",
                "url": "https://apnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "74fb375a91f5abae13d2af7c813642cf",
            "title": "Red hair may be increasing as study points to surprising evolution trend",
            "description": "Harvard Medical School researchers say natural selection has actively favored the red hair gene, analyzing nearly 16,000 ancient genomes spanning 10,000 years of human evolution.",
            "content": "NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\nA study from Harvard Medical School indicates natural selection has favored the red hair gene, resulting in a potential increase in the number of redheaded people as humanity continues to evolve.\nBy analyzi... [2826 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.foxnews.com/health/red-hair-may-increasing-study-points-surprising-evolution-trend",
            "image": "https://static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2026/04/woman-at-computer-red-hair.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-22T20:57:38Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a8408ad388422503ac33101396026891",
                "name": "Fox News",
                "url": "https://www.foxnews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "726bc2ab3c7ea2766dc51a6dacf33f30",
            "title": "HHS rejects publication of study showing Covid-19 vaccines prevent hospitalizations, ER visits",
            "description": "Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances that a US adult would need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study. But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
            "content": "Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances that a US adult would need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study. But you won’t hear ... [5339 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/health/hhs-cdc-study-covid-19-vaccines",
            "image": "https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/c-gettyimages-2236585131.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-22T19:33:51Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "b7f8938851261c8403f75f40eb1d8645",
                "name": "CNN",
                "url": "https://www.cnn.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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