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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": 168994,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "a745c5bfc93b0b2cea52f9b70a048844",
            "title": "GP guilty of helping patient use $18,500 in super to fund cosmetic liposuction",
            "description": "Connect. Collaborate. Grow",
            "content": "A GP who helped a patient use $18,500 of her superannuation to fund liposuction by claiming it was for life-threatening obesity has been suspended for three months.\nThe Perth GP was found guilty of professional misconduct last month over “misleading”... [409 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/gp-guilty-of-helping-patient-use-18500-in-super-to-fund-cosmetic-liposuction/",
            "image": "https://images.media.ausdoc.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/25201244/dreamstime_m_39247613.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T03:51:23Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "de734c5c7adc341cb689e22215b59005",
                "name": "AusDoc",
                "url": "https://www.ausdoc.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "98e699e58d7b41ea9788dbeb2ed8563e",
            "title": "Childhood Dementia Cause In Crosshairs",
            "description": "One of the family's twins was diagnosed with Sanfilippo syndrome at 18 months.An Australian-led international research collaboration has delivered a",
            "content": "An Australian-led international research collaboration has delivered a promising breakthrough in the quest to better understand and treat childhood dementia.\nPublished in preeminent scientific journal Nature Communications, the study uncovered a fund... [5664 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/childhood-dementia-cause-in-crosshairs-1651678/",
            "image": "https://news.flinders.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Tenille-Koistinen-family-scaled.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T02:54:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "5ec00375ebbd5b4a70a153bf95074153",
            "title": "Human skin model to help treat skin stiffened by age and disease",
            "description": "Researchers from The University of Western Australia will use biomaterials to create a lifelike 3D model of human skin to better understand and treat",
            "content": "Researchers from The University of Western Australia will use biomaterials to create a lifelike 3D model of human skin to better understand and treat skin stiffness associated with age, scarring and disease.\nIf successful, in time the model could red... [3011 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nationaltribune.com.au/human-skin-model-to-help-treat-skin-stiffened-by-age-and-disease/",
            "image": "https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2026/human-skin-model_card.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-04-08T02:36:16Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "0fcc9357644c6fcea43a610731824930",
                "name": "The National Tribune",
                "url": "https://www.nationaltribune.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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