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Australia Health News API

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

Get API key for the Australia 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 Australia.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=au&category=health&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 183736,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "910b7596e2d4e1f025e4aed3f7d6b8be",
            "title": "NSW Health admits disease circulating in community as outbreak, exposure sites grow",
            "description": "\"Other people may have been unknowingly exposed,\" NSW Health has warned.",
            "content": "Health authorities in Sydney admit measles is most likely circulating in the community after a person became infected despite not visiting any previous exposure sites.\nNSW Health confirmed a person in south-west Sydney contracted the highly infectiou... [2290 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.9news.com.au/national/sydney-measles-outbreak-nsw-list-of-exposure-sites/8c19002f-e5d2-460f-89a4-dc571a135c9b",
            "image": "https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/74KL_8cyeDu8NKmy2kihuvDGjfg=/1200x628/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fc05075c1-9e9b-45c2-9749-a2f4ce6a7fd4",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-28T04:45:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0a61032700ac7fb846fa8c9c95b0e2d5",
                "name": "9News.com.au",
                "url": "https://www.9news.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "4ac4da74562e9b25a368a0296ab1b961",
            "title": "NSW New Measles Alert For South Western Sydney 28 February",
            "description": "​​NSW Health is advising people in South Western Sydney to be alert for signs and symptoms of measles after being notified of a confirmed case.This",
            "content": "​​NSW Health is advising people in South Western Sydney to be alert for signs and symptoms of measles after being notified of a confirmed case.\nThis person has had no known contact with anyone else with measles and did not attend any known exposure l... [3531 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/nsw-new-measles-alert-for-south-western-sydney-1628451/",
            "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/news-and-developments.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-28T02:20:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "04b41336c8059f0cd5159552bf2d54d9",
            "title": "Max and Duncan sold everything they owned to roadtrip around Australia. Then came a grim diagnosis",
            "description": "A pair of \"not so grey\" nomads are refusing to let a stage-four cancer diagnosis derail their dream trip a...",
            "content": "A pair of \"not so grey\" nomads are refusing to let a stage-four cancer diagnosis derail their dream trip around Australia.\nDuncan Jones, 44, and Max Pascual, 46, set off on an indefinite lap around the country in early 2024 after selling everything t... [3571 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.9news.com.au/national/not-so-grey-nomads-max-and-duncan-cancer-diagnosis-during-australia-road-trip/40ca16ad-c8f3-4539-832e-45b1c40bba01",
            "image": "https://imageresizer.static9.net.au/TurjY6bcy7vCxlAhbgq3XSHRbtg=/0x596:1536x1460/1200x628/smart/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F3f87c48a-990c-4379-aa1f-090ea4aba846",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-28T00:34:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0a61032700ac7fb846fa8c9c95b0e2d5",
                "name": "9News.com.au",
                "url": "https://www.9news.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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