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": 191328,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "acec7e2053e4bd59468f59e62dbd6867",
            "title": "Gap widens as vaccination rates slip",
            "description": "A UNSW medical researcher says fewer Australians are getting vaccinated, with the decline hitting some communities harder than others.",
            "content": "A UNSW medical researcher says fewer Australians are getting vaccinated, with the decline hitting some communities harder than others.\nAs Australia heads into another flu season, a UNSW Sydney researcher says vaccination rates are falling across the ... [922 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/05/gap-widens-as-vaccination-rates-slip",
            "image": "https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/images/unsw-wide/general/news/2025/2025-10-kaldor-conference/AdobeStock_1191401914-Refugees.cropimg.width=700.crop=landscape.jpeg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T21:55:49Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "dfca06e752a9fcde08e7191c29b5c44d",
                "name": "UNSW Sydney",
                "url": "https://www.unsw.edu.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0180129592aa2bdf1bfac4ff8b729e62",
            "title": "Officials confirm diphtheria death in Australia amid outbreak",
            "description": "Health officials in Australia said that testing showed a man's death in April was caused by diphtheria, the first such death since 2018.",
            "content": "May 26 (UPI) -- Health officials in Australia said Tuesday that testing showed a man's death in April was caused by diphtheria, the first such death in the country since 2018.\nOfficials in Australia's Northern Territory declared a diphtheria outbreak... [1767 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/05/26/australia-diphtheria-outbreak-death/6251779829145/",
            "image": "https://cdnph.upi.com/sv/ph/og/upi/6251779829145/2026/1/e8f0a2ffeacb8666f43d2fc38531fe6a/v1.5/Officials-confirm-diphtheria-death-in-Australia-amid-outbreak.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T21:15:54Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "887e9e707c79cca3398c8d4e0e1c2d60",
                "name": "upi.com",
                "url": "https://www.upi.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0fbeaa23184362649efecc34a59a688a",
            "title": "Simple blood test could lead to personalised lung cancer treatment",
            "description": "A single blood test could help doctors predict how lung cancer patients will respond to treatment before therapy begins, researchers have found.",
            "content": "A single blood test could help doctors predict how lung cancer patients will respond to treatment before therapy begins, researchers have found.\nUniversity of Queensland-led research focused on non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common form... [1829 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-05-simple-blood-test-could-lead-personalised-lung-cancer-treatment",
            "image": "https://news.uq.edu.au/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2026-05/hmbs-personalised-lung-cancer-treatments-1.jpg?h=a81fead4&itok=KoIQnMhn",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-26T20:53:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "952a26198c5dc050c9ba7f484bbe3ce8",
                "name": "UQ News",
                "url": "https://news.uq.edu.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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