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": 194788,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c9f9e9f8f4d4b5665c779bd5632a4771",
            "title": "Public health agency concnered latest Ebola outbreak could become largest on record",
            "description": "The World Health Organisation says the outbreak is 'moving fast'.",
            "content": "In Brief\nWorld Health Organisation officials are warning the current Ebola outgreak could swell to be largest on record.\n82 people have died in the current outbreak.\nNearly 500 Ebola cases have now been confirmed in the deadly outbreak raging in cent... [2520 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/us-public-health-agency-warns-latest-ebola-outbreak-could-become-largest-on-record/nyyfsglsx",
            "image": "https://assets.sbs.com.au/dims4/default/de356e1/2147483647/strip/true/crop/7641x4298+0+399/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsbs-au-brightspot.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com%2Fac%2Fdf%2Fb284e0494023beba2bec93347b0f%2Fgettyimages-2277596950.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-06T10:13:12Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8a357287e7a54449c2cf5b80793a74a5",
                "name": "SBS Australia",
                "url": "https://www.sbs.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "17c3180c339372b5498af3a6a2b7f9de",
            "title": "Researchers Successfully Trial AI-Designed Vaccine for the First Time",
            "description": "The researchers used machine learning on genetic sequence data to design a super-antigen containing features common across the entire sarbecovirus group, which includes the viruses responsible for SARS and Covid-19.",
            "content": "A new AI-designed vaccine has proved successful in its initial clinical trials. According to the researchers, this is the first time that a vaccine using an active component designed entirely through computer simulations has been tested in humans.\nDe... [1894 chars]",
            "url": "https://au.pcmag.com/ai/118104/researchers-successfully-trial-ai-designed-vaccine-for-the-first-time",
            "image": "https://sm.pcmag.com/t/pcmag_au/news/r/researcher/researchers-successfully-trial-ai-designed-vaccine-for-the-f_jy7g.1200.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-06T10:10:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "1140ebf23013e05d5854a27aeef4d7d3",
                "name": "PCMag Australia",
                "url": "https://au.pcmag.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "86c68987ded9fa0094d724d04b2f2c50",
            "title": "Measles alert issued for Cairns",
            "description": "RESIDENTS are being urged to monitor for symptoms of measles after a confirmed case visited several locations across Cairns between 29 and 31 May.",
            "content": "Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service has issued a public health alert for people who were at several locations during specified times, including a flight from Sydney to Cairns, public bus services, Chemist Warehouse on McLeod Street, Col... [1924 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.cairnslocalnews.com.au/measles-alert-issued-for-cairns-2026-06-06",
            "image": "https://cairnslocalnews-4634.kxcdn.com/img/containers/assets/news/4a3cd070b24352b824bd8e23248099ec.webp/172477a5b39551bfbbe860b5af687353.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-06T05:25:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "024cfb3ae2f217f37d8f48198ce71de1",
                "name": "Cairns Local News",
                "url": "https://www.cairnslocalnews.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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