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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": 185762,
"articles": [
{
"id": "ebc2f334e424a52ea43236be82d91a58",
"title": "Young people taking initiative to quit at Canberra's first dedicated vaping support program",
"description": "The number of young people who have tried a vape has almost tripled since 2018, but Canberra's first dedicated vaping support program says young people are taking it upon themselves to overcome addiction.",
"content": "Cameron Owens-Gale first picked up vaping almost 10 years ago in California, before they became popular in Australia.\nHe'd kept up the habit irregularly over the decade, until a cough and sharp chest pains started to persist, and the now-28-year-old ... [5067 chars]",
"url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-19/act-young-people-vaping-quit-support-program-initiative/106577618",
"image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/7f13646f30321bfd0be619ed7cfc31c3?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1470&cropW=2613&xPos=0&yPos=0&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
"publishedAt": "2026-04-18T22:16:32Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
"name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
"url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
}
},
{
"id": "4ba8cf1cb5ae518d3649fa1ec7686168",
"title": "Kimberley diphtheria rates more than triple in a month after 50-year eradication",
"description": "An outbreak of the long-dormant, highly contagious bacterial infection diphtheria in Western Australia's north is raising alarm among government officials and experts.",
"content": "Cases of the potentially fatal bacterial infection diphtheria have more than tripled in the past month in Western Australia's far north.\nThe WA Country Health Service said there were 27 notified cases of diphtheria in the Kimberley, and growing — com... [3500 chars]",
"url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-19/kimberley-diphtheria-diagnosis-rates-raise-northern-wa/106571924",
"image": "https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/b1dc70d383eec1b21405d95405141bd9?impolicy=wcms_watermark_news&cropH=1689&cropW=3000&xPos=0&yPos=102&width=862&height=485&imformat=generic",
"publishedAt": "2026-04-18T21:53:27Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "5cda8b5d5087e0271b0c94a70da9fe74",
"name": "Australian Broadcasting Corporation",
"url": "https://www.abc.net.au"
}
},
{
"id": "98075c6fffabd746cab2e77f7eba1ffd",
"title": "Hidden in the Human Brain: Sex-Based Genetic Differences Rewrite Neuroscience",
"description": "Sri Lanka Guardian provides in-depth news, expert analysis, and reports on Sri Lanka and global affairs.",
"content": "Scientists have uncovered extensive differences in gene expression between male and female brain cells in a landmark study published in Science and reported by Nature, shedding new light on long-debated questions about why brain disease risks differ ... [5166 chars]",
"url": "https://slguardian.org/hidden-in-the-human-brain-sex-based-genetic-differences-rewrite-neuroscience/",
"image": "https://slguardian.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/keith-tanner-R4EFle2r8yA-unsplash.jpg",
"publishedAt": "2026-04-18T21:30:00Z",
"lang": "en",
"source": {
"id": "a57801176fe921e310673e3d4c0c14d1",
"name": "Sri Lanka Guardian",
"url": "https://slguardian.org"
}
}
]
}