Australia Health News API

Get the live top health headlines from Australia 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 Australia. 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=au&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

curl --get "https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines" \
  --data-urlencode "category=health" \
  --data-urlencode "country=au" \
  --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": "au", "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: "au",
    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"  => "au",
    "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=au&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": 213444,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "fd2fdf114016c0c25f5e55588e2928db",
            "title": "‘We’re actually mammals’: Parkinson’s Australia challenges herbicide safety as David Pocock leads growing calls for ban",
            "description": "The herbicide has been banned in 70 countries but it continues to be used on Australian farms.",
            "content": "Independent Senator David Pocock is pushing for a public hearing into Australia’s decision to keep a controversial herbicide linked to Parkinson’s disease on the market.\nOn Sunrise on Thursday, Pocock questioned the Australian Pesticides and Veterina... [2429 chars]",
            "url": "https://7news.com.au/sunrise/were-actually-mammals-parkinsons-australia-challenges-herbicide-safety-as-david-pocock-leads-growing-calls-for-ban-c-23021939",
            "image": "https://images.7news.com.au/publication/C-23021939/1a350540ea7147be3568994ef303ee423089adc2-16x9-x0y0w1280h720.png?imwidth=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:35:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a1eb61eb6c31bab5a24eb2032eec9908",
                "name": "7NEWS",
                "url": "https://7news.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "aa6f2ad6d24ff67bba5f32451374ad81",
            "title": "Hidden immune defence may unlock better responses in small cell lung cancer",
            "description": "Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified a previously overlooked type of immune cell that can recognise and kill small cell lung cancer, the deadliest form of the disease, which claims most of its patients within five years of diagnosis.",
            "content": "An aggressive cancer that has spent decades perfecting the art of hiding from the immune system may finally have met its match.\nResearchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified a previously overlooked type of immune cell that can re... [4080 chars]",
            "url": "https://biotechdispatch.com.au/news/hidden-immune-defence-may-unlock-better-responses-in-small-cell-lung-cancer",
            "image": "https://pharmadispatch.s3.us-west-or.io.cloud.ovh.us/00925401c74e0fa8d3835c5993fad8a4.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T23:07:22Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "104a5dae25d39499f9898e1270e497fd",
                "name": "BiotechDispatch",
                "url": "https://biotechdispatch.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f91f3d771b9ad4c7a8e4db6d3177031a",
            "title": "Calls for better post-cancer care to give isolated survivors support",
            "description": "After beating cancer, it took Carly Gogel months to find herself again, and she is not alone.",
            "content": "After about a year of fighting against stage two Hodgkin's lymphoma, Carly Gogel was somewhat lost when she found out she had beaten cancer.\n\"You're now deemed in remission, and you can go back to normal life now,\" she remembered being told at her la... [2456 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-15/caring-for-patients-after-cancer/107206776",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/4f5612b184fcfac1b65ee638a2e1c11a?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2813&cropW=5000&xPos=0&yPos=91&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-10-14T20:22:29Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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