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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 API

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": 2223358,
    "articles": [
        {
            "title": "Stress-Measuring Dental Floss Unveiled",
            "description": "Chronic stress can lead to increased blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, decreased immune function, depression, and anxiety. Unfortunately, the",
            "content": "Chronic stress can lead to increased blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, decreased immune function, depression, and anxiety. Unfortunately, the tools we use to monitor stress are often imprecise or expensive, relying on self-reporting question... [3893 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.miragenews.com/stress-measuring-dental-floss-unveiled-1466049/",
            "image": "https://cdn1.miragenews.com/tmp_cache?cdn=images.unsplash.com%2Fphoto-1588600878108-578307a3cc9d%3Fixid%3DMnwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8%26amp%3Bixlib%3Drb-1.2.1%26amp%3Bauto%3Dformat%26amp%3Bfit%3Dcrop%26amp%3Bw%3D755%26amp%3Bq%3D80",
            "publishedAt": "2025-05-23T16:14:00Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "Mirage News",
                "url": "https://www.miragenews.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "Ancient DNA Traces Borrelia recurrentis’s Evolution",
            "description": "Learn how scientists uncovered the evolutionary history of Borrelia recurrentis using ancient DNA, highlighting its role in historic fever pandemics.",
            "content": "Thank you. Listen to this article using the player above. ✖\nRead time: 5 minutes\nThroughout history, infectious diseases have profoundly affected human populations, yet key questions about their origins and evolutionary patterns remain unanswered.\nBo... [8174 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/ancient-dna-reveals-origins-of-sweating-fever-bacterium-400120",
            "image": "https://assets.technologynetworks.com/production/dynamic/images/content/400120/ancient-dna-reveals-origins-of-sweating-fever-bacterium-400120-640x360.jpg?cb=20250523",
            "publishedAt": "2025-05-23T16:03:38Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "Technology Networks",
                "url": "https://www.technologynetworks.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "title": "We found a germ that ‘feeds’ on hospital plastic - new study",
            "description": "We discovered how a plastic-eating enzyme made a germ more harmful.",
            "content": "Plastic pollution is one of the defining environmental challenges of our time – and some of nature’s tiniest organisms may offer a surprising way out.\nIn recent years, microbiologists have discovered bacteria capable of breaking down various types of... [3527 chars]",
            "url": "https://theconversation.com/we-found-a-germ-that-feeds-on-hospital-plastic-new-study-256945",
            "image": "https://images.theconversation.com/files/670009/original/file-20250523-56-bdzrvn.jpg?ixlib=rb-4.1.0&rect=0%2C1122%2C6720%2C3360&q=45&auto=format&w=1356&h=668&fit=crop",
            "publishedAt": "2025-05-23T16:01:02Z",
            "source": {
                "name": "The Conversation",
                "url": "https://theconversation.com"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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