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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": 167766,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "8234c3d80250263f7a08238e5533bd94",
            "title": "From period scooping to menstrual masking: the strange science of viral period hacks",
            "description": "Period scooping sounds like something you would only hear in a biology lab, not while doom-scrolling TikTok. Yet earlier this year, videos claiming",
            "content": "Period scooping sounds like something you would only hear in a biology lab, not while doom-scrolling TikTok. Yet earlier this year, videos claiming you can “scoop out” your period to avoid the mess and shorten the whole thing racked up millions of vi... [3552 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/from-period-scooping-to-menstrual-masking-the-strange-science-of-viral-period-hacks/",
            "image": "https://images.unsplash.com/uploads/1412533519888a485b488/bb9f9777?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw%3D&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1350&q=80",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T11:09:39Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fcc9357644c6fcea43a610731824930",
                "name": "The National Tribune",
                "url": "https://www.nationaltribune.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "a7d6dadc2c29f8bb27627a0ac3ad6f94",
            "title": "Who knew that mammograms -- with the help of AI -- could help women detect the possibility of heart disease?",
            "description": "Heart disease remains the leading cause of death among women, yet it often goes underrecognized and under-screened. A fascinating story in today's…",
            "content": "Heart disease remains the leading cause of death among women, yet it often goes underrecognized and under-screened. A fascinating story in today's Washington Post reports on a new study published in the European Heart Journal which suggests that a ro... [2621 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=2947372a-2db3-45d1-b30a-d9aabe00f992",
            "image": "https://www.lexology.com/images/share/lexology-social-media.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T10:40:56Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "edfad6a36ffb0247a10ec7ce9516ce09",
                "name": "Lexology",
                "url": "https://www.lexology.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "785117f7f59172e9ca139186b50c8679",
            "title": "UK Health Data's Global Impact Highlighted in Study",
            "description": "New analysis shows Clinical Practice Research Datalink has supported groundbreaking medical research across 29 countries with close to 3,800 published",
            "content": "Mirage News\nMirage News\nUK Health Data's Global Impact Highlighted in Study\nNew analysis shows Clinical Practice Research Datalink has supported groundbreaking medical research across 29 countries with close to 3,800 published studies\nThe Clinical Pr... [2887 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/uk-health-datas-global-impact-highlighted-in-1634217/",
            "image": "https://www.gov.uk/assets/frontend/govuk-opengraph-image-4196a4d6333cf92aaf720047f56cfd91b3532d7635fc21ebcf0d5897df6b5f77.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-10T10:38:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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