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Australia Health News API

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

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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": 163466,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "20f10d9c05687d70104db0abff49742b",
            "title": "Effect of ‘gamechanger’ Alzheimer’s drugs ‘trivial’, review concludes",
            "description": "Data assessed from 17 clinical trials of anti-amyloid drugs found no ‘meaningful effect’ on cognitive decline",
            "content": "Drugs that have been hailed as a gamechanger for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease make no noticeable difference to patients, according to an extensive review.\nThe analysis of clinical trials in people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dement... [3757 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/apr/16/effect-gamechanger-alzheimers-drugs-trivial-review-concludes",
            "image": "https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7dedce0f46ae3120e14cd5ab080b87fccd2076ba/88_0_5823_4659/master/5823.jpg?width=1200&height=630&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&overlay-width=100p&overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&enable=upscale&s=5febf6447610cf24ab6b088a062688d5",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-16T00:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "558a003a7a0164e924408edec7e99f99",
                "name": "The Guardian",
                "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1097fe729a75c7b66e449c79f61c893d",
            "title": "Are healthy foods really healthy? Nutrition researchers say context matters",
            "description": "This Clinical Nutrition opinion paper argues that nutrition research should stop asking whether a food is simply “healthy” and instead ask what it is being compared with. Because diets are compositional, the health effects of foods depend on the specific substitution, and the authors argue that causal inference and network meta-analysis can improve how evidence is interpreted.",
            "content": "A new paper argues that foods do not have fixed health effects in isolation. What matters is what they replace on the plate, and that shift could change how nutrition evidence is interpreted.\nOpinion: Is this food healthy? Reframing nutrition evidenc... [5840 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260415/Are-healthy-foods-really-healthy-Nutrition-researchers-say-context-matters.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/images/news/ImageForNews_835337_1776296976559532.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T23:50:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5a279ea986f60121c9b2e913b5b5b41d",
            "title": "Corrimal doctor banned after appealing practising conditions",
            "description": "The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal has found GP registrar Dr Amanpreet Purewal poses a \"significant\" risk of harm to public health and safety.",
            "content": "A stethoscope. Picture from Canva\nA former Corrimal doctor whose three-hour consultation with a patient sounded alarm bells with a supervisor is no longer allowed to practise medicine because she poses a \"significant\" risk of harm to the health and s... [5123 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/9223929/corrimal-doctor-banned-after-appealing-practising-conditions/",
            "image": "https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/gzajA9j5yvatvSgWamdNVy/5363c6a7-0e5a-4dea-ac13-e5c12eadb316.png/r0_30_1600_870_w1200_h630_fmax.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-15T22:39:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8da4dccf436615c51294f2d902e6e4fa",
                "name": "Illawarra Mercury",
                "url": "https://www.illawarramercury.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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