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": 197010,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "d1fd65cf94c65b6ff3fa3cb315dd58ca",
            "title": "King's Joins £5.79M Team to Boost Viral Immunity",
            "description": "Professor Jordana Bell and Dr Paul Lavender from King's College London are part of a project team that has been awarded £5.79 million in funding from",
            "content": "The epiPRIME project (Epigenetically Programmed Resilience through Innate Memory Engineering) is led by Dr Chiara Herzog at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and involves a team that spans six institutions - bringing together expertise in epigenetics... [3792 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/kings-joins-5-79m-team-to-boost-viral-immunity-1700131/",
            "image": "https://www.kcl.ac.uk/newimages/folsm/life-sciences-day-2-220-folsm.x3c4bc29e.jpg?w=780&h=520&crop=780,440,0,40&f=webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-26T11:04:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "6ed212b27c49eaeb2bf2114b7e6fb64f",
            "title": "New Alzheimer’s drugs offer hope for some, but good dementia care protects the humanity of those they cannot help",
            "description": "Medicine may slow decline for some, but dementia care must also protect dignity, identity and story when speech begins to fade.",
            "content": "Disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer’s offer a meaningful glimpse of hope for many people who fear dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, but dementia itself is an umbrella term for symptoms such as memory loss, confusio... [5792 chars]",
            "url": "https://theconversation.com/new-alzheimers-drugs-offer-hope-for-some-but-good-dementia-care-protects-the-humanity-of-those-they-cannot-help-285411",
            "image": "https://images.theconversation.com/files/743205/original/file-20260622-71-e54j96.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C0%2C5760%2C2880&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-26T10:01:50Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "344b3e5c4a3152c0cbebe5418ae064b7",
                "name": "The Conversation",
                "url": "https://theconversation.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "8476029d00e48343245bbde72958a3f0",
            "title": "The Australian",
            "description": "No Cookies | The Australian",
            "content": "Please note that by blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features, content or personalization. For more information see our Cookie Policy.\nTo enable cookies, follow the instructions for your browser below.\nFacebook App: Open... [1735 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes",
            "image": "https://www.theaustralian.com.au/wp-content/themes/newscorpau-news-dna/dist/images/fallback/fallback-theaustralian-169.svg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-26T09:01:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "30b44acf8108f4e5e172e6a0ef2da1cf",
                "name": "The Australian",
                "url": "https://www.theaustralian.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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