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Healthcare and medicine news API

Clinical practice, hospitals, treatments and health systems. Pass topic=MEDICAL to filter.

3.0karticles
1558outlets
2per outlet

What does the healthcare and medicine topic actually cover?

Health systems and how they are funded, hospital and workforce coverage, treatments and approvals, and clinical research reaching a general audience. Distinct from outbreak coverage, which behaves completely differently and is a separate topic here.

How do I filter news to healthcare and medicine?

Pass topic=MEDICAL on /search or /stories. Pair with a country for anything about provision, since health systems are national and their vocabularies are not shared. Pair with an organization for pharmaceutical coverage, where the company is usually the stable entity and the drug name is not. Hybrid mode throughout, because clinical language is paraphrased heavily on its way to a general readership.

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GET /stories?topic=MEDICAL&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out with healthcare and medicine coverage?

Treating announcement coverage as clinical evidence. A large share of the volume here originates in company and institutional press offices, and a phase result reported enthusiastically reads much like one reported cautiously once it has been through three rewrites. The index tells you what was announced and how it was received, not whether it works.

Who publishes on it

Specialist medical and trade press covers provision and workforce in detail and is largely invisible to the general reader. National health correspondents cover systems and politics. Wire services pick up journal embargoes in bulk. The specialist stream is where system change appears first and where a general query almost never reaches.

In the sample, 1558 outlets carry healthcare and medicine coverage at about 2 articles each. The busiest is china.com at roughly 3%, and china.com, setn.com, zazoom.it account for about 5% between them. Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.

What it is best for

Best for policy, funding and system change, and for tracking how a treatment is being talked about. Weakest for clinical truth, where peer review is the source and news is a lagging, lossy summary of it.

Monitoring it over time

Coverage follows journal embargo rhythms, so weekday spikes are structural rather than meaningful — establish the pattern for the titles that matter to you before reading anything into a jump. For provision stories, the useful cadence is weekly: system coverage builds over days rather than breaking, and a daily poll mostly returns the same story again.

Which signals pair with healthcare and medicine?

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

HTTP
GET /search?topic=MEDICAL&signal=healthcare&signal_min=0.25

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Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

china.com · setn.com · zazoom.it · tribunnews.com · baomoi.com · udn.com · indiatimes.com · haberler.com · cna.com.tw · baidu.com · cfi.net.cn · time.mk

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.