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": 190012,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "2ae0c396dd4b0d1362494c5cabbc2fdd",
            "title": "Life changing nanotechnology makes diabetes care a breeze",
            "description": "Professor Lan Fu is using nanotechnology to develop a medical device to detect signs of diabetes.",
            "content": "Professor Lan Fu is waiting for a call from the hospital about someone ill with diabetes.\nIt’s not a sick friend or family, but the first patient in her first pilot clinical study of the Ketowhistle breath test.\nThe Ketowhistle is a ground-breaking d... [5014 chars]",
            "url": "https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/life-changing-nanotechnology-makes-diabetes-care-breeze",
            "image": "https://science.anu.edu.au/sites/prod.science.sca-lws06.anu.edu.au/files/Professor%20Lan%20Fu%20nanotechnology.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-25T06:39:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7f67721c1f71601e793c6221a444ff9b",
                "name": "ANU College of Science and Medicine",
                "url": "https://science.anu.edu.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5b4a91368d1f438e2274f97570fc5897",
            "title": "NT Health confirms only one possible diphtheria-related death amid outbreak",
            "description": "The Northern Territory health department is refuting an earlier report that a second person has died with diphtheria in the NT, amid Australia's largest outbreak of the disease since records began.",
            "content": "The Northern Territory health department is refuting an earlier report that a second person has died with diphtheria in the NT, as the country continues to grapple with an ongoing outbreak of the disease.\nSources close to the deceased have told the A... [3558 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/nt-health-confirms-only-one-possible-diphtheria-death/106717680",
            "image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/8d87b9c0356a00afa1e61a20a5adfc8d?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=2999&cropW=5331&xPos=0&yPos=418&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-25T06:30:46Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
                "name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
                "url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "7462f58111c19956df155451de185886",
            "title": "Top 4 vaccine queries to the P2P Advice Line",
            "description": "With the expansion of pharmacy vaccination services across Australia, pharmacists are navigating an increasingly layered set of challenges.",
            "content": "td_module_mega_menu Object ( [post] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 32120 [post_author] => 12074 [post_date] => 2026-05-25 10:53:09 [post_date_gmt] => 2026-05-25 00:53:09 [post_content] => With the expansion of pharmacy vaccination services across Austra... [56762 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.australianpharmacist.com.au/top-4-vaccine-queries-to-the-p2p-advice-line/",
            "image": "https://www.australianpharmacist.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2000/05/Untitled-design-2026-05-25T105851.417.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-25T06:14:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "ba4b6a4ec46153a3e0bb43875a72bd15",
                "name": "australianpharmacist.com.au",
                "url": "https://www.australianpharmacist.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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