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": 193808,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c8f0333b3733c09b9e28aa6b4000670f",
            "title": "Annabelle was born five years too soon. Then a machine made a diagnosis",
            "description": "Keira Hannigan blamed herself for her daughter’s rare genetic condition until a remarkable new tool gave her answers. It’s helped hundreds of others.",
            "content": "Advertisement\nExclusiveNationalHealthcare\nAnnabelle was born five years too soon. Then a machine made a diagnosis\nJune 25, 2026 — 5:00am\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nA remarkable ... [4766 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/healthcare/annabelle-was-born-five-years-too-soon-then-a-machine-made-a-diagnosis-20260623-p609en.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.3947%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_448%2C$y_155/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/20e3ac10959579193db4a9baef041a117894e23c",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T19:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "281d0cf3bacff04cef4e33a7ce073acc",
            "title": "Peter Riley: MND becomes notifiable after tireless campaign",
            "description": "Family of the late Peter Riley, who campaigned to make MND a notifiable condition, are happy with the news this will happen in NSW.",
            "content": "Peter Riley and his wife Beth in 2022. File picture by Sylvia Liber\nWhen Peter Riley was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, he wanted to make it mandatory for doctors to report cases to health authorities, in the hope it would give scientists acce... [5302 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/9298480/peter-riley-mnd-becomes-notifiable-after-tireless-campaign/",
            "image": "https://www.illawarramercury.com.au/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/gzajA9j5yvatvSgWamdNVy/8278b8f5-eede-4325-9f0f-6a756c7e08f6.jpg/r0_248_5298_3029_w1200_h630_fmax.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T18:33:45Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8da4dccf436615c51294f2d902e6e4fa",
                "name": "Illawarra Mercury",
                "url": "https://www.illawarramercury.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "feeab6f2de9f3541a9be037c3e0fe33d",
            "title": "Major Microbiome Study Finds Strong Colorectal Cancer Marker",
            "description": "Researchers from EMBL, LUMC, and collaborators reanalysed nearly 6,800 gut microbiome profiles, revealing a consistent microbial signature of",
            "content": "Researchers from EMBL, LUMC, and collaborators reanalysed nearly 6,800 gut microbiome profiles, revealing a consistent microbial signature of colorectal cancer\nResearchers have long suspected that the gut microbiome - the community of bacteria and ot... [8113 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/major-microbiome-study-finds-strong-colorectal-1698455/",
            "image": "https://www.embl.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/PekelS_newsVisual3.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-24T15:08:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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