Ghana Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Ghana with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Headlines are based on Google News rankings and returned as JSON.

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Request and live response

This request returns the current top health headlines from Ghana. The response below is live: it was fetched when this page loaded. Every parameter is described in the Top Headlines endpoint documentation.

GET https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=gh&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=gh" \
  --data-urlencode "apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY"

response = requests.get(
    "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines",
    params={"category": "health", "country": "gh", "apikey": API_KEY},
    timeout=10,
)
response.raise_for_status()

for article in response.json()["articles"]:
    print(article["title"])

const API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY";

const params = new URLSearchParams({
    category: "health",
    country: "gh",
    apikey: API_KEY,
});

const response = await fetch(`https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?${params}`);
if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
}

const { articles } = await response.json();
for (const article of articles) {
    console.log(article.title);
}

On the Free plan, browsers can only call the API from localhost: see Using the API in the FAQ.

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

$params = http_build_query([
    "category" => "health",
    "country"  => "gh",
    "apikey"   => $apiKey,
]);

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $params);
if ($response === false) {
    throw new RuntimeException("Request failed");
}

$data = json_decode($response, true);
foreach ($data["articles"] as $article) {
    echo $article["title"] . PHP_EOL;
}

using System.Net.Http.Json;

const string ApiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

using var client = new HttpClient();

var url = $"https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?category=health&country=gh&apikey={ApiKey}";
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<ApiResponse>(url)
           ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("Empty response");

foreach (var article in data.Articles)
{
    Console.WriteLine(article.Title);
}

record ApiResponse(List<Article> Articles);
record Article(string Title);

200 OK · Live JSON response

{
    "totalArticles": 11020,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8097b20d38286951523391e737c8dc3a",
            "title": "Researchers uncover how astrovirus spreads without destroying gut cells",
            "description": "Among the various viruses that sicken your gut, some at least leave behind a tiny path of cellular destruction as they replicate, implicating the guilty pathogen.",
            "content": "Among the various viruses that sicken your gut, some at least leave behind a tiny path of cellular destruction as they replicate, implicating the guilty pathogen. Both rotavirus and norovirus invade the small intestines, multiply there, and can break... [4718 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20261103/Researchers-uncover-how-astrovirus-spreads-without-destroying-gut-cells.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/image-handler/picture/2017/1/Norovirus-Juan_Gaertner_042f9680fefc4e5c996978d1e52ceda7-620x480.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T03:20:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9376f8f98d74a3552008a1e255df7974",
            "title": "Study reveals potential link between limited cold stress during pregnancy and birth weight",
            "description": "Research out of South Dakota State University has highlighted a potential connection between limited exposure to cold stress during pregnancy and birth weight.",
            "content": "Research out of South Dakota State University has highlighted a potential connection between limited exposure to cold stress during pregnancy and birth weight. The work showed that that shearing ewes at day 50 of gestation, rather than after 100 days... [2994 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20261103/Study-reveals-potential-link-between-limited-cold-stress-during-pregnancy-and-birth-weight.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/image-handler/picture/2014/6/Pregnancy-620x480.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T03:11:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "005a3d969d1b9f81a182e981a1d50c29",
            "title": "Baseline RV Dysfunction May predict Sotatercept response in PAH",
            "description": "In 20 patients with PAH, lower baseline RVEF was linked to greater RV functional recovery and PVR reduction after 24 weeks of sotatercept, per a CHEST 2026 abstract.",
            "content": "Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and worse baseline right ventricular ejection fraction (RVEF) had greater RVEF and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) improvements after 24 weeks of sotatercept, according to a 20-patient analysis ... [4387 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.hcplive.com/view/baseline-rv-dysfunction-may-predict-sotatercept-response-in-pah",
            "image": "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/hcplive/73171f8004def051e8365b615524741bc1b10f84-1200x630.jpg?w=1200&fit=max&q=75&fm=jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T00:02:03Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "fdb44255685fc0ff4da1d8b3d77003bf",
                "name": "HCPLive",
                "url": "https://www.hcplive.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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