Q: My elderly dog's eyes appear to be getting cloudy. Is this cataracts? He seems to see just fine. A:Nuclear sclerosis and Cataracts are the major causes of cloudiness of the eyes. Nuclear sclerosis ...

Eyedrops can shrink cataracts in dogs, which may prove a first step toward a drug that can treat or even prevent cataracts in human eyes, researchers say. Cataracts form when the eye's lens grows ...

When you look into your dog’s eyes, you expect a warm, loving gaze. But if those eyes look cloudy, it’s natural to worry. Cloudiness can be a sign of serious health issues. Dogs can’t tell us when ...

It’s not uncommon to look into an older dog’s eyes and see a cloudy film or opacity over their eye lens. In some dogs, it’s nothing to be worried about and simply a sign of aging. For others, it can ...

Cataracts are like death and (yup) taxes: Inevitable. At some point—usually as you enter middle age—most people develop this eye condition, which is a clouding of the eye’s lens that can get ...

A controversial paper in Nature reports that a cholesterol-like molecule, lanosterol, can slow and possibly reverse the protein aggregation responsible for cataracts that form in people’s eyes. The ...

Cataracts are opaque or cloudy regions of the (normally clear) lens of the eye. Overall, about 24.4 million people in the United States are affected by cataracts, making this the most common cause of ...