Pakistan Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Pakistan 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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This request returns the current top health headlines from Pakistan. 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=pk&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=pk" \
  --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": "pk", "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: "pk",
    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"  => "pk",
    "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=pk&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": 72412,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c84d44a346f822be95b6aee966ffcb55",
            "title": "KMU VC participates in WHO meeting on cardiovascular disease in Geneva",
            "description": "Peshawar  -  Professor Dr Abdul Jalil Khan, Vice-Chancellor of Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar, participated in a five-day, in-person meeting of the",
            "content": "Peshawar - Professor Dr Abdul Jalil Khan, Vice-Chancellor of Khyber Medical University (KMU), Peshawar, participated in a five-day, in-person meeting of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Guideline Development Group (GDG) in Geneva, Switzerland, t... [2527 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nation.com.pk/04-Nov-2026/kmu-vc-participates-meeting-cardiovascular-disease-geneva",
            "image": "https://www.nation.com.pk/assets/thenation_202006/images/no-image-large.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T02:11:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5e331ca39104c898285cf9f72e2e2e65",
                "name": "The Nation (Pakistan )",
                "url": "https://www.nation.com.pk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cef97c29a73fdc0172df27f30f2195c8",
            "title": "2 fresh cases tally 86 confirmed dengue cases in Rawalpindi",
            "description": "RAWALPINDI  -  District Health Authority Rawalpindi has released the dengue prevention and control brief as of Monday, November 2. The data shows a total of",
            "content": "RAWALPINDI - District Health Authority Rawalpindi has released the dengue prevention and control brief as of Monday, November 2. The data shows a total of 6,433 patients screened across hospitals this year, resulting in 5,905 suspected cases and 86 c... [657 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nation.com.pk/04-Nov-2026/2-fresh-cases-tally-86-confirmed-dengue-cases-rawalpindi",
            "image": "https://www.nation.com.pk/assets/thenation_202006/images/no-image-large.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-04T01:56:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5e331ca39104c898285cf9f72e2e2e65",
                "name": "The Nation (Pakistan )",
                "url": "https://www.nation.com.pk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7ec197605b7a7b7041a956ce23a943de",
            "title": "I Took Olive Oil Shots Every Morning For A Month-Is The Health Hype Real?",
            "description": "I drank straight olive oil every day for a month to test its benefits for digestion, skin, and energy. Here’s what happened—and what a dietitian says.",
            "content": "I’ll try just about anything that promises to make me look and feel better, but drinking olive oil? That one gave me pause—until I read up on the impressive benefits and found out Hailey Bieber does it every day. Suddenly, I was down to ditch my gree... [6247 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.delish.com/food/a74221639/olive-oil-shots-health-benefits/",
            "image": "https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/31691f5b-92e2-4f02-9b16-5c4f2a060915.jpg?crop=0.67xw:1xh;0.197xw,0xh&resize=1200:*",
            "publishedAt": "2026-11-03T20:21:08Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9b8d336b18a18c189f6e5fc117dc0a6d",
                "name": "Delish",
                "url": "https://www.delish.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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