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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": 167368,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "c2789c66b82b8e99e11c7e4c0adeaed5",
            "title": "Can it really prevent dementia and cognitive decline?",
            "description": "Two new studies just dropped scrutinising what we can eat to keep our brain strong, quick and nimble as we age.",
            "content": "March 24, 2026 — 7:30pm\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nSave this article for later\nAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.\nExamine, a free weekly newsletter c... [7894 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/national/these-14-things-prevent-dementia-and-there-may-be-a-delicious-15th-factor-20260319-p5pxsb.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_54/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/f075e17daa93aa761939cc2b33742aaca95a3ce91baa5294b7eef7475af457ff",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T08:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7dc02c754b34dc5e4701aa61b9861db8",
            "title": "Can it really prevent dementia and cognitive decline?",
            "description": "Two new studies just dropped scrutinising what we can eat to keep our brain strong, quick and nimble as we age.",
            "content": "March 24, 2026 — 4:30pm\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nSave this article for later\nAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.\nExamine, a free weekly newsletter c... [7894 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.watoday.com.au/national/these-14-things-prevent-dementia-and-there-may-be-a-delicious-15th-factor-20260319-p5pxsb.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_54/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/f075e17daa93aa761939cc2b33742aaca95a3ce91baa5294b7eef7475af457ff",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T08:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f84de5a9871fd7a3fc44d14afefd2a35",
                "name": "WAtoday",
                "url": "https://www.watoday.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "bc1a77b2d14e7f8817e0a22af8f71725",
            "title": "Sezgin: KIRI's True Impact Is New Generation Researchers",
            "description": "In the intersection between the two KIRI fellows Claudia Kutter's and Erdinc Sezgin's research fields, new knowledge emerged about a rare genetic",
            "content": "\"My expertise lies in generating large amounts of data on a disease and then analysing these data,\" she explains. \"In my research field, we take a fairly agnostic approach to the results and let the data guide us. We have amazing analytical tools tha... [5518 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/sezgin-kiris-true-impact-is-new-generation-1642979/",
            "image": "https://news.ki.se/sites/nyheter/files/qbank/KIEFS08810_custom20260324080249.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-24T08:09:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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