By Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty | ENT, Head & Neck Surgeon | Dr. Mohanty's Speciality ENT Clinics, Chennai If I told you that one of the fastest-growing cancers in the world right now is a throat cancer — and that it predominantly affects people who have never smoked a cigarette in their lives — you would probably be surprised. Most people are. HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer is the ENT story of our generation. And in 2026, it is reaching epidemic proportions globally. As a head and

By Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty | Cochlear Implant & Hearing Specialist | Dr. Mohanty's Speciality ENT Clinics, Chennai My patient Rajan — a retired schoolteacher in his late 60s — sat across from me last year and said something I will never forget. He told me he had stopped going to his grandchildren's school plays because he couldn't follow what was happening. He felt like he was watching life from behind a glass wall. Rajan has moderate-to-severe sensorineural hearing loss. After f

By Dr. Sanjeev Mohanty | ENT, Head & Neck Surgeon | Dr. Mohanty's Speciality ENT Clinics, Chennai Let me be honest with you. When I first started practicing ENT medicine over 25 years ago, diagnosing a patient with a middle ear infection meant looking through a handheld otoscope, relying on experience, and a lot of clinical intuition. Today, Artificial Intelligence is sitting right next to us in the consultation room — and it is changing everything. This isn't science fiction