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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": 2210792,
    "articles": [
        {
            "title": "'I thought I was tired, then doctors told me the truth.'",
            "description": "Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, or LAM, is a rare, often misdiagnosed lung disease that almost exclusively affects women, particularly during childbearing years.",
            "content": "When Penny first felt the strange, shallowness of her breath, she brushed it off as nothing important. When her chest began tightening during yoga meditations, she put it down to age and burnout.\nAt 40, Penny had recently had her second child, and wa... [926 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.mamamia.com.au/finding-out-about-rare-disease/",
            "image": "https://new-cdn.mamamia.com.au/mamamia-pwa.appspot.com/mediaLibrary/IMG_5390_1746489496358jpg_1746489522822.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-05-17T02:48:35Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "Mamamia",
                "url": "https://www.mamamia.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "How a custom-made gene therapy could save one baby's life",
            "description": "A baby born with a rare, life-threatening genetic disease is now thriving after receiving an experimental gene-editing treatment. He's one of the first to be successfully treated with a bespoke therapy targeting a tiny but deadly error in his DNA. His doctors hope the technology could one day help the estimated 350 million people worldwide with rare diseases.",
            "content": "Listen to Australian and world news, and follow trending topics with SBS News Podcasts.\nTRANSCRIPT\nIt’s a medical breakthrough that could change how we treat some of the rarest and most devastating diseases on the planet.\nIn the United States, a desp... [3410 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/how-a-custom-made-gene-therapy-could-save-one-babys-life/njptayube",
            "image": "https://images.sbs.com.au/dims4/default/3f3d805/2147483647/strip/true/crop/907x510+10+0/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsbs-au-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbb%2Ff4%2F3e7ce36942d6817c80060d9429a1%2Fbaby-kj-muldoon-in-hospital-in-april-chloe-dawson.png",
            "publishedAt": "2025-05-17T02:35:02Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "SBS Australia",
                "url": "https://www.sbs.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "The Roots of Dementia Trace Back All The Way to Childhood, Experts Say",
            "description": "More than 60 million people are estimated to be living with dementia, resulting in over 1.5 million deaths a year and an annual cost to the global healthcare economy of around US $1.3 trillion (almost £1 trillion).",
            "content": "More than 60 million people are estimated to be living with dementia, resulting in over 1.5 million deaths a year and an annual cost to the global healthcare economy of around US $1.3 trillion (almost £1 trillion).\nDespite decades of scientific resea... [5439 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/the-roots-of-dementia-trace-back-all-the-way-to-childhood-experts-say",
            "image": "https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2025/05/child-looks-concerned.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-05-17T02:01:01Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "ScienceAlert",
                "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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