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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": 171696,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9c2828dc4073d07dd7a9929ef5bbd046",
            "title": "Townsville Bulletin",
            "description": "No Cookies | Townsville Bulletin",
            "content": "To use this website, cookies must be enabled in your browser. To enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below.\nFacebook App: Open links in External Browser\nThere is a specific issue with the Facebook in-app browser intermittently ma... [1284 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes",
            "image": "https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/wp-content/themes/newscorpau-news-dna/dist/images/fallback/fallback-townsvillebulletin-169.svg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T20:13:43Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "3a3c4ecca217c2193b29d42f9ad53818",
                "name": "Townsville Bulletin",
                "url": "https://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "f5b7bd3902ac9ed3a3d6257af31a88e5",
            "title": "Australian women without children more likely to seek mental health support",
            "description": "Women without children are more likely to seek mental health support compared to mothers, a University of Queensland study has found.",
            "content": "Women without children are more likely to seek mental health support compared to mothers, a University of Queensland study has found.\nDr Chuyao Jin, from UQ’s School of Public Health, analysed data from more than 6000 women, finding women without chi... [2481 chars]",
            "url": "https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-01-australian-women-without-children-more-likely-seek-mental-health-support",
            "image": "https://news.uq.edu.au/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2026-01/hmbs-mda-2025-women-without-children-and-mental-health_1080.jpg?h=3dbd9eac&itok=na_K80W5",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T20:00:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "952a26198c5dc050c9ba7f484bbe3ce8",
                "name": "UQ News",
                "url": "https://news.uq.edu.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "c4f17de4c7d07bbef079c09097637217",
            "title": "Stroke care feels the need … the need for speed",
            "description": "While Hospitals are under strain, EMVision is testing whether its portable brain scanners can step in when it really counts.",
            "content": "Stroke diagnosis moves into ambulances\nHospitals jammed, triage gets faster\nEMVision tests tech in real emergencies\nStroke care has always lived on one simple equation: the faster you work out what’s happening in the brain, the better the chance the ... [5399 chars]",
            "url": "https://stockhead.com.au/health/stroke-care-feels-the-need-the-need-for-speed/",
            "image": "https://stockhead.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-633710969-2-1200x675-1.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T19:45:29Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "5d4d8dde6419e0e60650a46ed99b3f43",
                "name": "Stockhead",
                "url": "https://stockhead.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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