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": 190100,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "dae9c987c18cea721441da5da0854176",
            "title": "Eating eggs regularly reduces Alzheimer’s disease risk",
            "description": "Findings suggest that egg consumption is associated with lower Alzheimer's disease risk, supporting the need for further research on diet and brain health.",
            "content": "Researchers tracked nearly 40,000 older adults for 15 years and found that people who consumed eggs moderately developed Alzheimer’s disease less often than non-consumers.\nStudy: Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease in the Adventist He... [7399 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260508/Eating-eggs-regularly-reduces-Alzheimere28099s-disease-risk.aspx",
            "image": "https://www.news-medical.net/images/news/ImageForNews_837132_17782382880975048.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T11:07:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2ca7a45d20357cb42858868cb4a4946",
                "name": "News-Medical",
                "url": "https://www.news-medical.net"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "35b95124954943c4305b9847430d7dc9",
            "title": "Hantavirus on cruise ship differs from strain found in China",
            "description": "Maria Van Kerkhove, an infectious disease epidemiologist at WHO, said in a Thursday news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, that the hantavirus cluster on the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius has led to eight reported cases, five of which have been confirmed, and three deaths.",
            "content": "As a hantavirus cluster on the cruise ship MV Hondius has led to eight reported cases, a Chinese infectious disease expert has moved to ease public concerns, noting that human-to-human transmission of the most common strain of hantavirus in China is ... [858 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.chinadailyasia.com/hk/article/633232",
            "image": "https://www.chinadailyhk.com/upload/main/image/2026/05/08/63b254ae26af6ce9011edb3191a00f0d.png",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T08:43:11Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f2001b11e203449d7b3efb435c5cb35e",
                "name": "chinadailyasia.com",
                "url": "https://www.chinadailyasia.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "0bfc8cb069d1733c708d97eb7a4799cd",
            "title": "One ‘marvellous’ GP’s role in a mystery heart illness",
            "description": "Exhausted by a cardiac disease that baffled doctors, Bathurst resident Gwen Brett tells how her GP helped keep her hopes alive.",
            "content": "After a series of heart crises with an uncertain diagnosis, you could be forgiven for withdrawing a little from life.\nBut that is not Gwen Brett’s way.\nA warm, genial resident of Bathurst in regional New South Wales, the retired nurse has made it her... [6934 chars]",
            "url": "https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/professional/one-marvellous-gp-s-role-in-a-mystery-heart-illnes",
            "image": "https://www1.racgp.org.au/getattachment/b703b78e-465b-4394-8b1d-859c0e36ab46/One-marvellous-GP-s-role-in-a-mystery-heart-illnes.aspx",
            "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T06:15:07Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7c8f5681a87b14a2d9325259b4120bf7",
                "name": "Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)",
                "url": "https://www1.racgp.org.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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