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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": 127858,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "664591e3309fa59c36208c853031c17f",
            "title": "Our Daughter Walked in on the Moment That Ended My Marriage. She Isn’t the Same.",
            "description": "She wants nothing to do with her mother.",
            "content": "Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here.\nDear Care and Feeding,\nI have two kids with my ex-wife, whom I divorced a year ago after I learned she was having an affair. “Layla” is 10; “Sa... [9117 chars]",
            "url": "https://slate.com/advice/2026/03/parent-advice-daughter-mother-relationship-divorce.html",
            "image": "https://compote.slate.com/images/1e5d067a-79da-4270-aad7-e3bf526cd34e.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy0&width=1560",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-22T12:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c8e1cfcb970c5e9a0a496c6b603e74b2",
                "name": "Slate",
                "url": "https://slate.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "367522661d2022901e1cd6f01ce8835e",
            "title": "Four truths about covid that have become clouded over time",
            "description": "In the early days, the virus posed a graver threat to people and the health care system, Trump embraced lockdowns he now blasts, and the benefits of vaccines were oversold.",
            "content": "Unlike in a hurricane or war zone, much of covid’s toll happened out of public view, inside the crowded hospitals where people died on ventilators, often without families by their side in the early months. Frustration built among millions of American... [250 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/03/22/covid-pandemic-misconceptions/",
            "image": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/RUGLRTKULZB6XPESJMXXJVLTDI.jpeg&w=1440",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-22T11:31:53Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa250375ed4d1652ad2c07377b69f537",
                "name": "The Washington Post",
                "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cb642d65daebd2f8220ed17b6278b893",
            "title": "I want to avoid the ‘aging mistakes’ my parents made. I’ve got work to do.",
            "description": "Twenty years ago, I started a list of what I considered “stupid things” that old people do. Now, I’m seeing my life, and my list, in a different light.",
            "content": "Wow, time flies. Nearly 20 years ago, soon after my 50th birthday, I started making a list of what I considered mistakes my parents (and many of their generation) had made as they aged — and that I swore I would not repeat. Some of the items were sil... [323 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2026/03/22/aging-mistakes/",
            "image": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/wapo/HMUFORIKCZAURJRKN2MFTAISPY.jpg&w=1440",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-22T10:31:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aa250375ed4d1652ad2c07377b69f537",
                "name": "The Washington Post",
                "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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