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": 192488,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9550b8c5929122fbc5833e7267324e68",
            "title": "Care coordination needed for remote cervical cancer patients: RACGP",
            "description": "As HPV vaccination rates fall, the college has found gaps in draft guidelines to manage the disease the vaccine fights.",
            "content": "The RACGP has welcomed the recognition of GPs as ‘integral’ to the management of patients with cervical cancer but says more needs to be done to support patients in rural and remote areas.\nIn a submission to new clinical guidelines for the management... [4084 chars]",
            "url": "https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/professional/care-coordination-needed-for-remote-cervical-cance",
            "image": "https://www1.racgp.org.au/getattachment/614e8df6-b9a3-42a0-b6d8-aec4080524c2/Care-coordination-needed-for-remote-cervical-cance.aspx",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-10T06:18:21Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7c8f5681a87b14a2d9325259b4120bf7",
                "name": "Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)",
                "url": "https://www1.racgp.org.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c5a439bd3f8057b7cc64d19d55277d3c",
            "title": "How Gut Fungi and Archaea Influence Human Health",
            "description": "Beyond bacteria, fungi and archaea are emerging as powerful regulators of digestion, immunity, and disease risk, revealing how cross-kingdom microbial networks help shape human health and offer new opportunities for personalized microbiome-based medicine.",
            "content": "Introduction\nWhat Is the Human Mycobiome?\nHow Archaea Regulate Digestion and Energy Extraction\nCross-Kingdom Networks in the Human Gut\nClinical Implications\nReferences\nFurther Reading\nThe non-bacterial gut microbiome, particularly fungi and archaea, ... [9470 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/health/How-Gut-Fungi-and-Archaea-Influence-Human-Health.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/images/Article_Images/ImageForArticle_27600_17799641421155675.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-10T05:30:28Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "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": "2026-06-10T05:28:08Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "e4b3c00f8decf2b789f3538a30b01b9d",
                "name": "The Cairns Post",
                "url": "https://www.cairnspost.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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