New Zealand Health News API

{
    "totalArticles": 998,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "ab7a8ee85aaa780b39a6049b774a5c2f",
            "title": "US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth",
            "description": "The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses.",
            "content": "A federal vaccine advisory committee voted today to end the longstanding recommendation that all US babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.\nA loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried the actions of the panel, whose... [7036 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/12/06/us-vaccine-advisers-say-not-all-babies-need-a-hepatitis-b-shot-at-birth/",
            "image": "https://tvnz-1-news-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/the-cdc-advisory-committee-on-immunization-practices-meets-i-SGZ5H3TPXZHSXPU65KCEBGW5KM.jpg?auth=ba6c0473e23c29896076b05d5216978b8a1a8145dda8f8e2f5609aaa3b999bcd&quality=70&width=600&height=315&focal=2000%2C1125",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-05T22:54:17Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "9b3921fcecffb9abd8da549eacb0a84a",
                "name": "1News",
                "url": "https://www.1news.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "9b47c3bbfc543538afd3692944d7dcea",
            "title": "Diabetes: Tauranga man breaks spine during seizure while asleep",
            "description": "Tauranga father Connah Boyd had reached the sweet spot in his life – a wife, son and their first home. Then he snapped his spine. The 38-year-old diabetic...",
            "content": "“I had such a violent seizure that it snapped four [vertebrae] of my spine.\n“I bit through my tongue. I had to get my tongue sewn back on.”\nHe woke up in hospital a day later.\n“It took me about two days for my brain to come back. I couldn’t talk – I ... [4245 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/diabetes-tauranga-man-breaks-spine-during-seizure-while-asleep/IEICK5UIDREZXIPJQJCGZXTVEA/",
            "image": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/PIOD54DMFJHT7LVZDAGSSG7HWM.jpg?auth=110e78d6353d9998753c3b04eab9fac88641d0af64fc8a8b3ca57d6b114e654c&width=1200&height=675&quality=70&smart=true",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-05T17:00:55Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "a086bc2011f6ea09f34f87b9ef0a588b",
                "name": "NZ Herald",
                "url": "https://www.nzherald.co.nz"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "1d2b9a869c60575124cc4cf0ed4c3fe1",
            "title": "US advisers scrap decades-long hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for most children",
            "description": "Disease experts say the move will reverse decades of public health gains.",
            "content": "By Michael Erman, Julie Steenhuysen and Mariam Sunny, Reuters\nA group of vaccine advisers have scrapped a long-standing recommendation that all US children receive the hepatitis B shot at birth, a major policy win for health secretary Robert F Kenned... [3297 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/581050/us-advisers-scrap-decades-long-hepatitis-b-vaccine-recommendation-for-most-children",
            "image": "https://media.rnztools.nz/rnz/image/upload/s--IU7NObwi--/t_tohu-badge-facebook/v1760240786/4JZN6VS_AFP__20251009__789X6M4__v1__HighRes__UsPoliticsTrumpCabinet_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD",
            "publishedAt": "2025-12-05T16:46:02Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "79971a6b38016604095f88394b17172a",
                "name": "RNZ",
                "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz"
            }
        }
    ]
}