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": 184726,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a805337cbf314067df5d4a2b06768a61",
            "title": "Research shows community help essential for native bats",
            "description": "Community help is no longer just nice to have in the world of bat conservation, it is essential to large-scale bat monitoring and the protection of threatened and understudied species, according to new research.",
            "content": "Community help is no longer just nice to have in the world of bat conservation, it is essential to large-scale bat monitoring and the protection of threatened and understudied species, according to new research.\nesearch from Murdoch University’s Scho... [3347 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.murdoch.edu.au/news/articles/research-shows-community-help-essential-for-native-bats",
            "image": "https://cdn.murdoch.edu.au/mu-images/newsportallibraries/default-album/gould's-wattled-bat-(chalinolobus-gouldi)-website.jpg?sfvrsn=a648d753_1",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-23T04:52:27Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c9e84102c6fe70019f67dd5e389d2dd1",
                "name": "Murdoch University",
                "url": "https://www.murdoch.edu.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9405b137b126dd13cb25284c9d78496d",
            "title": "When the pills don’t work: how to manage chronic pain",
            "description": "Leading pain experts give their advice on the strategies that really help",
            "content": "Pain is never purely physical. It’s never only bodily harm that’s causing our hurt. So says Dr Rachel Zoffness, a leading pain psychologist who trained at prestigious Brown University and has studied the science of pain for 35 years. Pain is our body... [12036 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/chronic-pain-manage-without-medication-6gmrjjc7m",
            "image": "https://www.thetimes.com/imageserver/image/672deb23-cd22-444d-a981-74cf6ee52dec.jpg?strip=all&format=webp&crop=2547px%2C1433px%2C985px%2C487px&resize=1200",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-23T04:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9e0e1039092ec85a0b069e08b66bb337",
                "name": "The Times",
                "url": "https://www.thetimes.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "af7fb51c928133bd110ea958647adac8",
            "title": "Meningococcal Cases 23 April 2026",
            "description": "An 86-year-old female from metropolitan Adelaide is in a stable condition in hospital, after being diagnosed with invasive meningococcal disease. The",
            "content": "An 86-year-old female from metropolitan Adelaide is in a stable condition in hospital, after being diagnosed with invasive meningococcal disease. The specific strain is in the process of being confirmed.\nSA Health has identified multiple people who h... [1718 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/meningococcal-cases-23-april-2026/",
            "image": "https://c.nationaltribune.com.au/wp-content/themes/news/images/news-image-default.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-23T03:11:59Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fcc9357644c6fcea43a610731824930",
                "name": "The National Tribune",
                "url": "https://www.nationaltribune.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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