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": 198198,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "814eb7317186273feda7ae46671c647d",
            "title": "Keri’s sister died from MND. She says the state has taken ‘a step in the right direction’",
            "description": "It will be mandatory for doctors in NSW to report cases of motor neurone disease to a state registry in a step forward for patients and families affected by the condition.",
            "content": "June 27, 2026 — 7:30pm\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nWhen Keri Balding was told that her younger sister Jennifer had been diagnosed with sporadic motor neurone disease (MND) in May... [4383 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theage.com.au/national/nsw/keri-s-sister-died-from-mnd-she-says-the-state-has-taken-a-step-in-the-right-direction-20260624-p609u4.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.3182%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_271%2C$y_178/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/cd10d100b92365a5e93e35d16ef863006f84dbd1e3f83a16a7ce5b2199424294",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-27T09:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8952aa953859e9190b836f04018f5efe",
                "name": "The Age",
                "url": "https://www.theage.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "65579f293e861350ef59621ef24ceb5d",
            "title": "Keri’s sister died from MND. She says the state has taken ‘a step in the right direction’",
            "description": "It will be mandatory for doctors in NSW to report cases of motor neurone disease to a state registry in a step forward for patients and families affected by the condition.",
            "content": "June 27, 2026 — 7:30pm\nYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.\nRemove items from your saved list to add more.\nWhen Keri Balding was told that her younger sister Jennifer had been diagnosed with sporadic motor neurone disease (MND) in May... [4383 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/nsw/keri-s-sister-died-from-mnd-she-says-the-state-has-taken-a-step-in-the-right-direction-20260624-p609u4.html",
            "image": "https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.3182%2C$multiply_0.7554%2C$ratio_1.777778%2C$width_1059%2C$x_271%2C$y_178/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/cd10d100b92365a5e93e35d16ef863006f84dbd1e3f83a16a7ce5b2199424294",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-27T09:30:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "c603a60ac40ff998dd7aeead5e4953dc",
                "name": "Brisbane Times",
                "url": "https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "23d974797b1ef5c4f41dbe3b90368eb8",
            "title": "Fourth positive bird flu case confirmed amid surge of calls to animal disease hotline",
            "description": "More than four hundred reports have been made to the emergency animal hotline in just over a week.",
            "content": "In brief:\nA fourth case of H5 bird flu has been confirmed on the south-west coast of Western Australia.\nA potential fifth case of the deadly virus is awaiting confirmation.\nWestern Australia has confirmed its third positive bird flu case, the fourth ... [4026 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/fourth-positive-bird-flu-case-confirmed-amid-surge-of-calls-to-animal-disease-hotline/ya542agrr",
            "image": "https://assets.sbs.com.au/dims4/default/a28aa9d/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3254x1831+454+248/resize/1280x720!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsbs-au-brightspot.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com%2F95%2F28%2Fa7158d84463aa87042f98ec73e27%2F20130204000882252660-original.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-06-27T07:30:40Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "8a357287e7a54449c2cf5b80793a74a5",
                "name": "SBS Australia",
                "url": "https://www.sbs.com.au"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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