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Australia Health News API
Get the live top health headlines from Australia with our JSON API.
Get API key for the Australia Health News APIAPI 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": 172804,
"articles": [
{
"id": "e2e2a5d50557f71e844f1fc2ef43b7ff",
"title": "New potential for treating ageing and metabolic disorders",
"description": "University of Queensland researchers say the discovery of a new stress reduction role for a naturally occurring molecule in the body could lead to new drugs and treatment for metabolic disorders and ageing.",
"content": "University of Queensland researchers say the discovery of a new stress reduction role for a naturally occurring molecule in the body could lead to new drugs and treatment for metabolic disorders and ageing.\nProfessor Steven Zuryn, a molecular genetic... [1844 chars]",
"url": "https://news.uq.edu.au/2026-01-new-potential-treating-ageing-and-metabolic-disorders",
"image": "https://news.uq.edu.au/sites/default/files/styles/card_image/public/2025-12/microrna-credit-artur-adobe-stock-1080.jpg?h=8b410439&itok=KsUlPYuN",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-21T21:38:41Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "952a26198c5dc050c9ba7f484bbe3ce8",
"name": "UQ News",
"url": "https://news.uq.edu.au"
}
},
{
"id": "6e4c51b5808007fa383bb325679263b2",
"title": "Social interaction among infants boosts diversity of gut microbial strains, study shows",
"description": "The microbiome of infants is shaped by social relationships from an early age and not only by family sources, finds a recent study published in the journal Nature.",
"content": "The microbiome of infants is shaped by social relationships from an early age and not only by family sources, finds a recent study published in the journal Nature.\nThe study was conducted by researchers from the Department of Cellular, Computational ... [5173 chars]",
"url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01-social-interaction-infants-boosts-diversity.html",
"image": "https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2026/social-interaction-amo.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-21T21:01:59Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "fc12437cc984742bf9a97820262ab48a",
"name": "Medical Xpress",
"url": "https://medicalxpress.com"
}
},
{
"id": "036c7b1ee1070c4c98f4656ab1a6d0dc",
"title": "Why stress is putting rural hearts at risk in western NSW",
"description": "Health experts warn chronic stress is increasing heart disease risk in rural NSW, where disease burden is higher and access to care is limited.",
"content": "For people living in rural and regional NSW, stress is often accepted as part of everyday life, shaped by cost-of-living pressure, distance from services, workforce shortages and the quiet expectation to “just get on with it”.\nBut health experts warn... [4586 chars]",
"url": "https://westernplainsapp.com.au/NewsStory/why-stress-is-breaking-rural-hearts-and-what-to-do-about-it/69703a5bf8fc92002e2b313a",
"image": "https://iappnetwork-production.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/listHeaderLargeComponents/69703a5bf8fc92002e2b313a/header_images/full_cewIaNG1fryMd6_GqWk6F.png",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-21T20:42:54Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "bbe152929d11ce303a0ceda87965e872",
"name": "westernplainsapp.com.au",
"url": "https://westernplainsapp.com.au"
}
}
]
}