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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": 179486,
"articles": [
{
"id": "79abe57a6ba4d6843bb46ebe9006caa5",
"title": "Over 1 Million Estimated To Have Glaucoma In UK",
"description": "Over one million people are estimated to currently have glaucoma in the UK, a figure projected to reach more than 1.6 million by 2060, according to a",
"content": "The new figures, published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology and commissioned by Glaucoma UK, are nearly 50% higher than previous estimates of glaucoma prevalence. The researchers say there could be more than half a million people with undiagno... [6724 chars]",
"url": "https://www.miragenews.com/over-1-million-estimated-to-have-glaucoma-in-uk-1605537/",
"image": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/sites/news/files/styles/medium_image/public/eye_check.jpg?itok=KJ61mPo-",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-21T14:38:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "0368281c39ba31f7435685e8b620f675",
"name": "Mirage News",
"url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
}
},
{
"id": "23d0b0488d4bb49bf75551efb0a65fac",
"title": "Why a flu transmission experiment didn’t spread the flu",
"description": "Despite days in close quarters with flu patients, healthy volunteers didn’t get sick – revealing insights into transmission.",
"content": "A group of volunteers spent days locked in a small hotel room with people actively infected with flu. They played games, shared objects and exercised together in conditions designed to help the virus spread. Yet not a single person caught influenza.\n... [5094 chars]",
"url": "https://theconversation.com/why-a-flu-transmission-experiment-didnt-spread-the-flu-273859",
"image": "https://images.theconversation.com/files/713585/original/file-20260121-56-ahyg2o.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C684%2C8192%2C4096&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-21T14:09:12Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "344b3e5c4a3152c0cbebe5418ae064b7",
"name": "The Conversation",
"url": "https://theconversation.com"
}
},
{
"id": "574ef82cc72496d4ca4e4a41adf47517",
"title": "Why ‘unwinding’ with screens may be making us more stressed - here’s what to try instead",
"description": "Many people may call it self-care to crash on the couch with your smartphone, but screen-based activities increase the load on your brain instead of resting it.",
"content": "As Americans increasingly report feeling overwhelmed by daily life, many are using self-care to cope. Conversations and social media feeds are saturated with the language of “me time,” burnout, boundaries and nervous system regulation.\nTo meet this d... [6997 chars]",
"url": "https://theconversation.com/why-unwinding-with-screens-may-be-making-us-more-stressed-heres-what-to-try-instead-272887",
"image": "https://images.theconversation.com/files/712897/original/file-20260116-56-kzk3aq.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C36%2C2120%2C1060&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop",
"publishedAt": "2026-01-21T13:35:57Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "344b3e5c4a3152c0cbebe5418ae064b7",
"name": "The Conversation",
"url": "https://theconversation.com"
}
}
]
}