Pakistan Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Pakistan with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Pakistan Health News API

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 Pakistan.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=pk&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 67518,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "899fd3c56bf1f71f755d9fb51e1b5204",
            "title": "French fries raise diabetes risk 20%: New study warns",
            "description": "French fries significantly raise type 2 diabetes risk, but boiled potatoes don't, a crucial distinction buried in a decades-long study of 205,000 health professionals.Participants were followed up...",
            "content": "French fries significantly raise type 2 diabetes risk, but boiled potatoes don't, a crucial distinction buried in a decades-long study of 205,000 health professionals.\nParticipants were followed up on for close to four decades. All of them were free ... [1866 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1406622-french-fries-raise-diabetes-risk-20-new-study-warns",
            "image": "https://www.thenews.com.pk/assets/uploads/2026-06-20/1406622_045106_updates.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-20T11:40:30Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "d6d8d1da5b3ea3eb10f02262522a0d6d",
                "name": "The News International",
                "url": "https://www.thenews.com.pk"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f70e2d553ec398fe687ffd55f7badf5b",
            "title": "Should Couples Get Tested For Sickle Cell Before Starting A Family?",
            "description": "Should Couples Get Tested For Sickle Cell Before Starting A Family?",
            "content": "Planning a family often involves making choices about nutrition, finances and overall health, but genetic screening is an equally important consideration that is frequently overlooked. Among inherited blood disorders, sickle cell disease (SCD) remain... [7798 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bwhealthcareworld.com/article/should-couples-get-tested-for-sickle-cell-before-starting-a-family-611448",
            "image": "https://static.businessworld.in/imresizer-pexels-rdne-6149221_20260619205409_ogImage_23.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-20T01:03:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9615c9d1df641811ae145679be64559a",
                "name": "BW Healthcare World",
                "url": "https://www.bwhealthcareworld.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0b1f47cdf00d18e733f5329099e8ca7c",
            "title": "How H5N1 bird flu hid unrecognized for weeks in dairy cattle",
            "description": "When H5N1 bird flu first began infecting U.S. cattle in early 2024, diagnosis was elusive because, in cows, the disease looked completely different. Instead of affecting the lungs, as H5N1 does in other mammalian species, it caused severe infection in the cows' udders, largely sparing the lungs.",
            "content": "When H5N1 bird flu first began infecting U.S. cattle in early 2024, diagnosis was elusive because, in cows, the disease looked completely different. Instead of affecting the lungs, as H5N1 does in other mammalian species, it caused severe infection i... [3880 chars]",
            "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-06-h5n1-bird-flu-hid-unrecognized.html",
            "image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/how-h5n1-bird-flu-hid.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-19T18:00:05Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "6063be7565dcd637bb5d2946ed6c5329",
                "name": "Phys.org",
                "url": "https://phys.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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