A new scientific study
A new scientific study has shown that honey has special characteristics that help to defend against germs. Honey also has high capability to resistbacteria that evolved their immune systems against standard medications.
Honey, in the old and modern era, has always been used as a natural medicine for many diseases. This new study might be a new twist to use honey for medical purposes.

According to the study that has been done through Sidney University in Australia, Dekarter, a scientific teacher in the biological and microbial science college says, "our research has shown that honey can replace many of the antibiotics that are used to treat cuts such as ointments and different creams. Also, using honey for healing purposes will increase the aging period of antibiotics. " She also adds: " most of the bacteria that cause infections in hospitals are at least resistance to one type of antibiotic, which means the need to produce new and stronger antibiotics that are able to execute bacteria that cause diseases."

A scientific study assures that Allah (SWT) supplied honey with natural antibiotics that kills dangerous microbes, let us read …
Honey is a complicated compound that is consists of 800 molecules. This complication makes it difficult for scientists to fully understand the honey's mechanism of resisting and killing the bacteria. scientist Dekarter says: "until now, we have not found the method the honey apply to resist bacteria, but most likely there is the molecule" Methylglyoxal ", which is part of the honey, that reacts with other molecules which we have not discovered yet , to become able to inhibit bacteria from multiplying and making new generations that have the ability to resist to antibiotics. "Doctor Rose Koper ,from the Health Science college of Wells University, has conducted a research regarding honey's activity against bacteria, and she wrote the book "Honey facing cuts". In her book, she says: “there are many factors that give honey the special healing characteristics, including high sugar level, low water level, and low acidity."

Honey is a healing for people
My beloved for the sake of Allah! These new studies that are discovered by scientists and amaze them are not as surprising for us, because Allah Almighty has mentioned honey in his book, and revealed a chapter and call it " An-Nahl" which mean Bees. Allah almighty says:” And your Lord inspired the bee, saying: "Take you habitations in the mountains and in the trees and in what they erect * Then, eat of all fruits, and follow the ways of your Lord made easy (for you)." There comes forth from their bellies, a drink of varying color wherein is healing for men. Verily, in this is indeed a sign for people who think "[An-Nahl 68-69].
In conclusion, we advise every sister and brother to always have honey available in their homes. Honey is useful for treating burns, cuts, pyorrhea and it, is good for skin, cold and virus infections. So, we must have honey and use it both for food and medicine; especially for children!

Honey is a hydroscopic product produced from bee vomit. Naturally it varies by locale due to regional variations in nectar sources in native and imported flora. Honey has long been part of traditional, pre-scientific medicine because it is largely pathogen free due to it's non-vertebrate origin and low water content.

In modern medicine use of traditional substances is in two categories: those treatments which have been demonstrated to be safer and more efficacious than non-treatment and those that have not passed both these tests, the later being called quackery or frauds or "alternative medicine."

The papers you cite (inaccurately and misleading) are about honey from specific flora native to Australia -- and has nothing to with the Arabian peninsula of the distant past. Allah didn't make honey -- bees make honey. These aren't even Islamic bees we are discussing.

This PR announcement is filled with misinformation. This is not recent news. Here is a remarkably similar article from 2009. http://www.islammemo.cc/akhbar/Oloom-we-se...html?lang=en-us

The researcher's name was Dee Carter, but it was Julie Irish who did the experiments.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065476/ (Article written 2010)

Also interviewed, "Rose Koper" who I believe to be "RA Cooper" of several articles 1999-2005.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22DA+Carter%22+honey
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=...Cooper%22+honey

My dear brother

God says in the Holy Qur'an
(69) Then eat from all the fruits and follow the ways of your Lord laid down [for you]." There emerges from their bellies a drink, varying in colors, in which there is healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought

And see here
cnn.com

Narrated By
Abu Said Al-Khudri : A man came to the Prophet and said, "My brother has some abdominal trouble." The Prophet said to him "Let him drink honey." The man came for the second time and the Prophet said to him, 'Let him drink honey." He came for the third time and the Prophet said, "Let him drink honey." He returned again and said, "I have done that ' The Prophet then said, "Allah has said the truth, but your brother's abdomen has told a lie. Let him drink honey." So he made him drink honey and he was cured.

Sahih al-Bukhary, The Book of Medicine , Hadith Number:5746, Narrated by: Sa'd Ibn-Malik

If you want to talk religion, there is a sub-forum for that, called "Creation/Evolution". It's there so religion does not have to be discussed on the scientific sub-forums.
Or even mentioned, for that matter.