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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": 183950,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9f479cef0e18c8bb5da8de8d2f5b5a58",
            "title": "[CROI 2026] Life4me+: Long-acting PrEP, limits of resistance, and implementation",
            "description": "An oral abstract session was dedicated to HIV PrEP giving a technically mature assessment of the state of prevention science in 2026.",
            "content": "Life4me+ news story\nAt CROI 2026, an oral abstract session was dedicated to HIV PrEP. There were no revolutionary discoveries in this session, but something more important happened: experts gave a technically mature assessment of the state of prevent... [252 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.eatg.org/hiv-news/croi-2026-life4me-long-acting-prep-limits-of-resistance-and-implementation/",
            "image": "https://www.eatg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/neel2qzlwc.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-28T11:36:20Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "323e897150d4f6ea4eb50b9db2f4fb89",
                "name": "European AIDS Treatment Group",
                "url": "https://www.eatg.org"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "cb9cac57f92e5370004dbf6574b92168",
            "title": "Raising awareness about shingles",
            "description": "IT is rare for someone under the age of 12 to get shingles while people over the age of 50 are most at risk, according to the WA Department of Health. The department said shingles is a viral infection caused by the varicella zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox and is a common health […]",
            "content": "IT is rare for someone under the age of 12 to get shingles while people over the age of 50 are most at risk, according to the WA Department of Health.\nThe department said shingles is a viral infection caused by the varicella zoster virus, the same vi... [2974 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.yanchepnewsonline.com.au/raising-awareness-about-shingles/",
            "image": "https://www.yanchepnewsonline.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ShinglesF25b2-2025.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-28T09:16:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "42c06f16b0a1bd93f02176619acbe4c5",
                "name": "Yanchep News Online",
                "url": "https://www.yanchepnewsonline.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0c39d7bda55a965d8abaab9be2a288ba",
            "title": "The Cairns Post",
            "description": "No Cookies | The Cairns Post",
            "content": "To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser. To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below.\nFacebook App: Open links in External Browser\nThere is a specific issue with the Facebook in-app browser intermittently ma... [1284 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cairnspost.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes",
            "image": "https://www.cairnspost.com.au/wp-content/themes/newscorpau-news-dna/dist/images/fallback/fallback-cairnspost-169.svg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-02-28T08:35:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e4b3c00f8decf2b789f3538a30b01b9d",
                "name": "The Cairns Post",
                "url": "https://www.cairnspost.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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