Latvia Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Latvia with one request to the Top Headlines endpoint of GNews API. Stories are selected by Google News rankings and returned as clean JSON.

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This request returns the current top health headlines from Latvia. 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=lv&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=lv" \
  --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": "lv", "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: "lv",
    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);
}

<?php

$apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

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

$response = file_get_contents("https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?" . $query);
if ($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=lv&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": 10720,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a324c23d9f8f5c6d916150b36f7c714d",
            "title": "Q&A: UW doctoral student on expanding climate models to better capture the complexities of public health",
            "description": "Scientists and policymakers use scenarios called Shared Socioeconomic Pathways to project how today’s choices affect tomorrow’s world. But for complex subjects like public health, these intentionally simple scenarios don’t capture every complexity.",
            "content": "About a decade ago, a group of climate scientists described five scenarios for the future. Called the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), these scenarios suggest how socioeconomic development could evolve in worlds with differing challenges to clim... [7539 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.newswise.com/articles/qa-uw-doctoral-student-on-expanding-climate-models-to-better-capture-the-complexities-of-public-health",
            "image": "https://www.newswise.com/assets/new/img/logo-banner.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:25:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a7e70333eab8750164de280ed5e2e58c",
                "name": "Newswise",
                "url": "https://www.newswise.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "530a4b86352ace14cfd81529684b5e68",
            "title": "What a Large Prostate MRI Study Reveals About AI and Unassisted Radiologist Assessment",
            "description": "An AI model for prostate MRI offered an 89 percent AUC for prostate cancer detection in external validation testing, according to a newly published international multicenter study.",
            "content": "Emerging international multicenter research suggests that an AI model may offer enhanced detection of prostate cancer (PCa) on MRI in comparison to evaluation by unassisted radiologists.\nFor the retrospective study, recently published in Radiology, r... [5330 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.diagnosticimaging.com/view/prostate-mri-study-ai-unassisted-radiologist-assessment",
            "image": "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/diag_imaging/6ab4eb6ebb3b869edff832e3e7a86fc5bea03e5d-1200x876.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T22:18:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1b025f97a9d8b3f468069d39454bd8d0",
                "name": "Diagnostic Imaging",
                "url": "https://www.diagnosticimaging.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "48fb20a5d9df11c74b266bb2013a12e3",
            "title": "AAO 2026: How to become an ocular pain detective in dry eye",
            "description": "Anat Galor, MD, MSPH, explains how to tell whether dry eye pain stems from the nerves or the tear film and how to target it.",
            "content": "Many patients diagnosed with dry eye are actually experiencing ocular pain that may stem from the ocular surface, the nerves, or both, according to Anat Galor, MD, MSPH, a professor of ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and a staff physicia... [537 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.ophthalmologytimes.com/view/aao-2026-become-ocular-pain-detective-in-dry-eye",
            "image": "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0vv8moc6/eyecare-network/da93c708947db878d5c7e6bcf5a349b958666dab-1200x628.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T19:09:05Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "39f36047360f2fba15cc5fa086a43e14",
                "name": "Ophthalmology Times",
                "url": "https://www.ophthalmologytimes.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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