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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": 170942,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "9f24bd59f746386df076842b229003ff",
            "title": "Bowel cancer warning",
            "description": "A leading Noosa surgeon has urged residents to undertake the free national bowel screen test. Dr Heinrich Schwalb, general surgeon [...]",
            "content": "A leading Noosa surgeon has urged residents to undertake the free national bowel screen test.\nDr Heinrich Schwalb, general surgeon at Noosa Hospital, said the hospital received about 50 bowel cancer presentations annually.\n“Do the National Bowel scre... [2054 chars]",
            "url": "https://noosatoday.com.au/news/09-12-2025/bowel-cancer-warning/",
            "image": "https://noosatoday.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/cancer_523463_01.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-09T03:02:05Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "aee745e7cac5f11d1a537305a1f2ec1c",
                "name": "Noosa Today",
                "url": "https://noosatoday.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "dec147a3c5ef6a58aa2250434344a786",
            "title": "Researchers Unite for Kinder Childhood Cancer Care",
            "description": "As a clinician and researcher, Professor Nick Gottardo has focused his career on developing new treatments for childhood brain cancer. Now working",
            "content": "As a clinician and researcher, Professor Nick Gottardo has focused his career on developing new treatments for childhood brain cancer. Now working alongside his team at The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor Gottardo is committed to finding... [4371 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/researchers-unite-for-kinder-childhood-cancer-1585870/",
            "image": "https://cancerwa.asn.au/assets/public/2022/07/cancerwa-social.png",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-09T02:59:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "da5f9b7b088d55ba5cedf9f84958321c",
            "title": "Tailoring antidepressant treatment in young Australians",
            "description": "The protocol of an Australian-first pilot study based at the Perron Institute in Western Australia which explores the efficacy of personalised antidepressants",
            "content": "The protocol of an Australian-first pilot study based at the Perron Institute in Western Australia which explores the efficacy of personalised antidepressants in young people with major depressive disorder (MDD) has been published.\nAs well as measuri... [3444 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.perroninstitute.org/tailoring-antidepressant-treatment-in-young-australians/",
            "image": "https://www.perroninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Brad-Roberts-and-Zahra-Cooper-at-the-Perron-Institute-w-1920x1391.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-09T02:55:10Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "db935429bb9e70d03213deb2e738b4d1",
                "name": "Perron Institute",
                "url": "https://www.perroninstitute.org"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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