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": 195264,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9f118c65835c65d87a5b450ba0670674",
            "title": "Urine Ammonia: New Marker for Canine Kidney Disease",
            "description": "Dogs with lower urine ammonia-to-creatinine ratios (UACR) may suffer from faster progression of kidney disease and higher fatality rates, according to",
            "content": "Dogs with lower urine ammonia-to-creatinine ratios (UACR) may suffer from faster progression of kidney disease and higher fatality rates, according to new research from North Carolina State University. The work suggests that UACR levels may be a usef... [3123 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/urine-ammonia-new-marker-for-canine-kidney-1682398/",
            "image": "https://news.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AdobeStock_351487948-1500-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T19:14:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6b626c61c8f748bb61292262d3b8c163",
            "title": "Australians have 'startlingly' low awareness of controllable dementia risk factors",
            "description": "Too many Australians still see dementia as an inevitability, according to new data but there is a list of steps you can take to reduce the risks.",
            "content": "One night after a networking event in Sydney, Jane Turner was walking along her street, trying to head home.\nBut there was a problem — she couldn't remember where her home was.\nA taxi had dropped her off a few hundred metres from her apartment but sh... [7794 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-29/dementia-alzheimers-risk-factors-women/106731056",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/1f0f1f2444928dbb776def1b36900217?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1971&cropW=3504&xPos=0&yPos=183&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T18:44:35Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c6b41b5d723c04df8626555fe25e2c8f",
            "title": "Mosquitoes can learn to be attracted to the smell of repellent, study finds",
            "description": "Scientists have found that mosquitoes in the lab can be trained to connect the smell of a widely used repellent with food, but repellents are still the best way to protect yourself.",
            "content": "Mosquitoes are the world's deadliest animal, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide each year with the diseases they carry.\nRepellent, which drives mosquitoes away with its smell, is an important tool in the arsenal against these diseases.... [5605 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-05-29/mosquitoes-can-learn-to-be-attracted-to-the-smell-of-repellent/106729278",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/16024709a523cfba8befce049ce561f9?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=576&cropW=1024&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T18:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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