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": 197816,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8d4e5a8c01244bc52b0d412d98e64bb0",
            "title": "Baby fossils reveal link between human and Neanderthal development",
            "description": "A UQ skeletal histologist has led analysis of baby teeth and bone fossils from 50,000-70,0000 years ago that reveal the growth of Neanderthals was remarkably similar to modern humans.",
            "content": "An international study of infant remains from 50,000–75,000 years ago has provided new evidence about the developmental trajectory of our evolutionary ‘cousins’, Neanderthals.\nUniversity of Queensland skeletal histologist Dr Justyna Miszkiewicz led a... [2456 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-06-baby-fossils-reveal-link-between-human-and-neanderthal-development",
            "image": "https://news.uq.edu.au/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2026-06/hass-neanderthal-baby-remains-1080w-credit-alice-walczer-baldinazzo.jpg?h=a81fead4&itok=QW7KOgac",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-16T23:10:32Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "952a26198c5dc050c9ba7f484bbe3ce8",
                "name": "UQ News",
                "url": "https://news.uq.edu.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "711ef428b02d84a7aa859782a08f377e",
            "title": "Ebola outbreak: Armed attackers at health centre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo removes woman, child",
            "description": "Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo say an armed group has removed a woman and her daughter from an Ebola health centre in the country's east.",
            "content": "Armed assailants have removed a woman and her daughter from a health centre in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, authorities say, raising fears of further spread of the Ebola virus.\nThe attackers, armed with bladed weapons, stormed a clinic n... [2505 chars]",
            "url": "https://thenightly.com.au/world/ebola-outbreak-armed-attackers-at-health-centre-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-removes-woman-child-c-22442315",
            "image": "https://images.thenightly.com.au/publication/C-22442315/d892f8a73a1d151d8c1f8997d298db9c7ab0012d-16x9-x0y0w800h450.webp?imwidth=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-16T21:15:19Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "20bb5956d6815cfa1e442a067839d5a2",
                "name": "The Nightly",
                "url": "https://thenightly.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "956fd9ef42bfb74691f749f800e5c42d",
            "title": "New Cause of Age-Related Inflammation Found",
            "description": "HOUSTON, JUNE 16, 2026 ― A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has uncovered a previously unknown",
            "content": "HOUSTON, JUNE 16, 2026 ― A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has uncovered a previously unknown connection between nucleic acid structures called R-loops and age-related inflammation – or inflammaging –... [3947 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/new-cause-of-age-related-inflammation-found-1693582/",
            "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/tmp_cache?cdn=images.unsplash.com%2Fphoto-1532619675605-1ede6c2ed2b0%3Fixlib%3Drb-4.0.3%26amp%3Bixid%3DMnwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8%26amp%3Bauto%3Dformat%26amp%3Bfit%3Dcrop%26amp%3Bw%3D1170%26amp%3Bq%3D80",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-16T21:03:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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