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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": 2551850,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "b44380922a301d359e2eb73b2c166d46",
            "title": "‘Major change of practice’ in asthma advice",
            "description": "A significant update to the Australian Asthma Handbook recommends a move away from reliance on ‘blue puffers’ for treatment.",
            "content": "New guidance in the Australian Asthma Handbook advises against prescribing or recommending treatment using only short-acting beta2 agonists (SABA) to manage the condition in adults and adolescents.\nIt signals a move away from the so-called blue puffe... [5680 chars]",
            "url": "https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/major-change-of-practice-in-asthma-advice",
            "image": "https://www1.racgp.org.au/getattachment/9c6c9e7a-8f46-4ec9-9c14-056282f1b65d/Major-change-of-practice-in-asthma-advice.aspx",
            "publishedAt": "2025-09-17T05:14:04Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7c8f5681a87b14a2d9325259b4120bf7",
                "name": "Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)",
                "url": "https://www1.racgp.org.au",
                "country": "au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "d0f5206c212f9d0a3b90fea5375474ef",
            "title": "minute Telford donor matches with blood cancer patient",
            "description": "Race Against Blood Cancer says there are about 2,000 people looking for a stem cell match in the UK.",
            "content": "A man who signed up to find out if he was a stem cell match to a blood cancer patient has donated his cells to another person in need.\nBrendon Craister, 26, took part in a donor drive at Telford Minster, in Shropshire, last Christmas. He came across ... [1565 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqlz2pgqdvvo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/8f94/live/cf1e4970-930a-11f0-a647-dff301f4a439.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-09-17T05:04:12Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com",
                "country": "au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c62ddb25fb80fc486aa21eacb80661da",
            "title": "Here’s what you need to know",
            "description": "Pelvic floor dysfunction is considered the ‘black hole for men’s health’ because so little is understood about it, but it can lead to incontinence and erectile dysfunction. Ignore it at your peril.",
            "content": "Women’s health lags men’s in many ways, but there is one area where the scales are tipped the other way: pelvic health.\n“For a long time, we just applied what we knew about women … to men, and that did not work. There are similarities but there are d... [4556 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/it-s-common-after-prostate-cancer-surgery-but-pelvic-floor-dysfunction-is-treatable-here-s-how-20250812-p5mm7x.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.5171%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_0%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/t_theage_no_label_no_age_social_wm/a14e231354b74073217f2e6b98be921bfdb639d7",
            "publishedAt": "2025-09-17T05:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au",
                "country": "au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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