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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": 166566,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "4b8a641f5ac73955725ae842cea2d96f",
            "title": "Prostate Cancer Screening Matches Breast Screening: Study",
            "description": "Prostate cancer screening compares favourably to screening for breast cancer in identifying significant cancers, reducing mortality and avoiding",
            "content": "Prostate cancer screening compares favourably to screening for breast cancer in identifying significant cancers, reducing mortality and avoiding unnecessary harms, says new research.\nThe findings are presented today [Sunday 15 March 2026] at the Euro... [4492 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/prostate-cancer-screening-matches-breast-1637111/",
            "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/tmp_cache?cdn=cdn.pixabay.com%2Fphoto%2F2019%2F07%2F17%2F19%2F17%2Fhands-4344711_960_720.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-15T00:04:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b13aeaad9a604b9d8f3d82e7dc849f0f",
            "title": "INTERVIEW: Brain health focus from 20s and 30s 'critical' in preventing dementia",
            "description": "With dementia now confirmed as the leading cause of death in Australia, advocates are calling on the federal government to fund a public health campaign to promote brain health. The CEO of Dementia Australia, professor Tanya Buchanan, speaks to Blake Quinn about what the data is showing and what Australians should be doing to reduce the risk of getting the brain condition.",
            "content": "Listen to Australian and world news and follow trending topics with SBS News Podcasts.\nDementia is now the number one cause of death for Australians, overtaking heart disease.\nWith the numbers projected to double to more than 1.1 million by 2065, adv... [483 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/interview-brain-health-focus-from-20s-and-30s-critical-in-preventing-dementia/dy443d9zd",
            "image": "https://assets.sbs.com.au/dims4/default/0f92778/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1125+0+104/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsbs-au-brightspot.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com%2F29%2Fd7%2F55aecdb544618e3b1d344baf10bf%2Ftanya-buchanan-dementia-australia-ceo.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-14T20:30:20Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8a357287e7a54449c2cf5b80793a74a5",
                "name": "SBS Australia",
                "url": "https://www.sbs.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1b08791449207d82c08f5c1a63dd660e",
            "title": "No one wanted to date the kid with the thick glasses. I risked my vision to ditch them forever",
            "description": "I was teased as “four-eyes”, had the frames ripped from my face, sometimes forced to fight – half-blind – to get them back.",
            "content": "As I type this, the computer screen looks blurry – even with a larger font and double spacing. I briefly considered voice recognition software but decided to hold off. After recent surgery, I’m still neuroadapting.\nAt 51, I finally had eye surgery to... [5722 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/no-one-wanted-to-date-the-kid-with-the-thick-glasses-i-risked-my-vision-to-ditch-them-forever-20260118-p5nuwr.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.714193043462388%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_99%2C$y_24/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/t_metro_opinion_no_age_social_wm/d2f20d7eedcbe432e5c2f63ef87c777d2c2e1e69",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-14T18:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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